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Rehearing; relief granted - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3521

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                               SUBCHAPTER C
                                  REVIEW

     Sec.
     3521.  Rehearing; relief granted.
     § 3521.  Rehearing; relief granted.
        If any party in interest shall, within five years after the
     final confirmation of any account of a personal representative,
     file a petition to review any part of the account or of an
     auditor's report, or of the adjudication, or of any decree of
     distribution, setting forth specifically alleged errors therein,
     the court shall give such relief as equity and justice shall
     require: Provided, That no such review shall impose liability on
     the personal representative as to any property which was
     distributed by him in accordance with a decree of court before
     the filing of the petition. The court or master considering the
     petition may include in his adjudication or report, findings of
     fact and of law as to the entire controversy, in pursuance of
     which a final order may be made.

        Cross References.  Section 3521 is referred to in sections
     5163, 5167, 5533, 7798, 7799.2 of this title.

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