§ 33-12-1 Estate chargeable with debts
§ 33-12-2 Order of application of property
§ 33-12-3 Expenses included in expenses of administration
§ 33-12-4 Sale or mortgage of real estate when personalty insufficient
§ 33-12-5 Real estate not devised applied first
§ 33-12-6 Sale of real estate to effect prompt settlement of estate
§ 33-12-7 Powers of temporary executors and administrators with will annexed over realty
§ 33-12-8 Public or private sale of assets
§ 33-12-9 Application of rents and income of real estate to debts – Leases by executor or administrator
§ 33-12-10 Application of rents and income from real estate for repairs, taxes, and mortgage
§ 33-12-11 Order of preference of debts
§ 33-12-12 Decrees for distribution of insolvent estates
§ 33-12-13 Disposition of assets of nonresident
§ 33-12-14 Distribution or transfer to domiciliary executor or administrator of personalty of nonresident
§ 33-12-15 Preference to citizens of state in distribution of insolvent estate of nonresident
§ 33-12-16 Residue of insolvent estate of nonresident after payment to citizens
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 33-12 - Payment of Decedents' Debts and Charges

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • real estate: may be construed to include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and rights thereto and interests therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-10
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
  • United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8