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Individual estate - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3171

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                               SUBCHAPTER E
                      PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE; BOND

     Sec.
     3171.  Individual estate.
     3172.  Register's responsibility.
     3173.  Fiduciary estate.
     3174.  When not required.
     3175.  Requiring or changing amount of bond.
     § 3171.  Individual estate.
        Except as hereinafter provided, before letters shall be
     granted to any personal representative, he shall execute and
     file a bond which shall be in the name of the Commonwealth, with
     sufficient surety, in such amount as the register considers
     necessary, having regard to the value of the personal estate
     which will come into the control of the personal representative,
     and conditioned in the following form:
            (1)  When one personal representative.--The condition of
        this obligation is, that if the said personal representative
        shall well and truly administer the estate according to law,
        this obligation shall be void; but otherwise, it shall remain
        in force.
            (2)  When two or more personal representatives.--The
        condition of this obligation is, that if the said personal
        representatives or any of them shall well and truly
        administer the estate according to law, this obligation shall
        be void as to the personal representative or representatives
        who shall so administer the estate; but otherwise, it shall
        remain in force.

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