458

SETTLEMENT OF DECEDENTS' ESTATES. [ART. 50.

Provisions
when not in-
cluded in
inventory

mansion-house farm, shall not be sold or included in the inventory
of his estate, but shall remain for the use of the family of such de-
cedent.

Id s 219
1841, c 178, s 2,
1845, c 357, s 3
Inventory to
embrace all

144. With the exception "of the articles enumerated in the last
two preceding sections, all the assets of the deceased shall be in-
cluded in such inventory.

other assets

Id s 220
1798 c 101,
sub-c 7, 1812, c.
101, s 2, 1807, c
136, s 1, 1818, c
217, ss 1, 2
What deemed
assets
9 Md 286;
17 Md 102,
33 Md 11,
43 Md 336

145. The following shall he deemed and taken for assets in the
hands of an administrator, to wit: Leases for years, estates for the
life of another person or persons, except those granted to the de-
censed and his heirs only; a common warrant for land not executed
or located in the lifetime of the deceased; and all goods, wares, mer-
chandise, utensils, furniture, cattle, stock, provisions, tobacco, and
every kind of produce, the crop on the land of the deceased by him
or her begun, things annexed to the freehold or building which may
be removed without prejudice to the building, ornaments, and every
species of personal property, except those things which are denom-
inated heirlooms and the ornaments and jewels of a widow proper
for her station, and the clothing of the family.

COLLECTING DEBTS AND SUITS BY EXECUTORS.

Art 93, s 103
1798, c 101,
sub-c 8, s 5
What suits
administrator
may bring, and
In what suits
liable
23 Md 312, 30
Md 24S, 553, 32
Md 214, 35 Md
483

146. Executors and administrators shall have full power to com-
mence and prosecute any personal action whatever, at law or in
equity, which the testator or intestate might have commenced and
prosecuted, except actions of slander, and actions for injury done
to the person, and they shall be liable to be sued in any court of law
or equity in any action (except as aforesaid) which might have been
maintained against the deceased; and they shall be entitled to and

Costs.

answerable for costs in the same manner as the deceased would have
been, and shall be allowed for the same in their accounts, if the court
awarding costs against them shall certify that there were probable
grounds for instituting, prosecuting, or defending the action on
which a judgment or decree shall have been given against them.

1861, c 44
In what cases
personal actions
not to die with
the person.

147. The words, " actions for anything done to the person, "
used in the last preceding section, shall not be held to embrace
actions for illegal arrest, false imprisonment, or violation of the
twenty-third, twenty-sixth, thirty-first, and thirty second articles of
the declaration of rights, or any of them, or of any provisions of
this Code, touching the writ of habeas corpus, or proceedings there-
under; for all of which enumerated wrongs actions may be main-
tained by and against executors, as they may be or might have been
by and against the party or parties deceased.

Art 93, s 223
1798, c 101,
sub-c 11), s 4
To sue for
sperate debts,
and when.

148. The court shall examine every list of debts returned by
an administrator, and for every debt which the court shall not mark
as desperate or improper to be put in suit, the administrator shall
commence a suit, unless the debt be paid within six months there-
after, or unless the debtor be out of the State, or unless the court
shall think reasonable an excuse made within one month after the
lapse of the said six months for not bringing suit; and, on failure