Direction
with regard
to the inventory. |
122 DIRECTIONS for
EXrs and ADMrs.
willed, in the inventory, under a notion, that
as they are to be given away immediately, there
is no necessity for that trouble; but this is a
wrong maxim, and dangerous precedent; the
trouble which their appraisement will occasion,
is too trifling to be compared with the many ill
consequences likely to result from such practice;
and the additional expence of office for inserting
the names of one hundred negroes more in the
inventory, doth not amount to seven pound of
tobacco--besides, the executors and administrator's
oath is, " that they shall render a just and
" true inventory of all and singular the goods
" and chattels of the deceased, that shall come
" to their hands &c,"--which those, who follow
the above practice, evidently do not. I
would therefore recommend it to all executors,
to appraise all and singular the effects of the deceased,
without any regard had to legacies of
any kind, whether general or specific.
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The inventory should also contain all the
debts sperate of the deceased, that is, such
debts as are esteemed, or known to be in good
hands; but the practice now in general is, to
return such debts, when received, in a special
list, termed a list of debts sperate due to A. B. late of
------ county deceased, which answers the same
end; those which have not been received, as |
