THE PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ACT, 1977 (1920 A.D.)
Section 138. When each legatee compellable to refund in proportion.
When the executor has paid away the assets in legacies, and he is afterwards obliged to discharge a debt of which he had no previous notice, he is entitled to call upon each legatee to refund in proportion.
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