Preceding section qualified The preceding section does not affect the liability of a person to whom money or other property has been deli... · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 721. Preceding section qualified
The preceding section does not affect the liability of a person to whom money or other property has been delivered as distributee or legatee to respond to the person lawfully entitled thereto, where letters are revoked because a supposed decedent is living or because a will is discovered after administration has been granted, in a case of supposed intestacy or a prior will is revoked upon which letters were granted.
Revoking letters because the supposed decedent is alive, a will is later found after intestate administration, or the will supporting the letters is later revoked does not relieve a distributee or legatee who received property from liability to the person legally entitled to it. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Surrogate's Court in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Surrogate's Court Procedure Act; Volume 5 — Your Career: Surrogate's Court in Plain English.