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THE PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ACT, 1977 (1920 A.D.)

Section 41. Appointment, as administrator, of person other than one who under ordinary circumstances would be entitled to administration.

When a person had died intestate, or leaving a will of which there is no executor willing and competent to act, or where the executor is, at the time of the death of such person, resident out of the Province, and it appears to the Court to be necessary or convenient to appoint some person to administer the estate or any part thereof other than the person who under ordinary circumstances would be entitled to a grant of administration, the Judge may, in his discretion, having regard to consanguinity, amount of interest, the safety of the estate and probability that it will be properly administered, appoint such person as he thinks fit to be administrator ; and in every such case letters of administration may be limited or not as the Judge thinks fit.

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