Cap. 10activeordinance

Probate and Administration Ordinance

遺囑認證及遺產管理條例

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s.59

Liability of estate of personal representative

Where a person as personal representative of a deceased person (including an executor in his own wrong) wastes or converts to his own use any part of the property of the deceased, and dies, his personal representative shall, to the extent of the available assets of the defaulter, be liable and chargeable in respect of such waste or conversion, in the same manner as the defaulter would have been if living.