Bond of a legal life tenant Whenever a legal life tenant is entitled to the possession or control of property under a will, he shall if t... · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 807. Bond of a legal life tenant
Whenever a legal life tenant is entitled to the possession or control of property under a will, he shall if the court so directs execute and file a bond unless the will expressly provides otherwise.
A legal life tenant entitled under a will to possess or control property must execute and file a bond if the court directs, unless the will expressly provides otherwise. ★
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.