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Title XXVII DEBTOR-CREDITOR RELATIONS

Chapter 426

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  426.180.  Notice, how given — creditor failing to present at proper time, precluded — exceptions. — The assignee shall give notice of the time and place of adjusting and allowing demands against the estate of his assignor, by advertisement published in some newspaper printed in the county, or, if there be none, in the one nearest the place where the inventory is filed, for four weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least one week before the appointed day; and also, whenever the residence of any of the creditors is known to him, by letter addressed to such creditors at their known or usual places of abode, at least four weeks before the appointed day.  The assignee shall attend at the place designated in said notice in person, on said day, and shall remain in attendance at said place on said day, and during two consecutive days thereafter, and shall commence the adjustment and allowance of demands against the trust fund at nine o'clock a.m., and continue the same until five o'clock p.m., of each of said three days; and all creditors who, after being notified as aforesaid, shall not attend at the place designated during the said term, and lay before the assignee the nature and amount of their demands, shall be precluded from any benefit of said estate; but the hearing on any demand presented at the time may be continued, for good cause shown, to such time as is deemed right; provided, that any creditor who shall fail to lay his claim before said assignee during said term, on account of sickness, absence from the state, or any other good cause, may, at any time before the declaration of the final dividend, file and prove up his claim, and the same may be allowed, and the remaining dividends paid thereon, as in the case of other allowed claims.

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(RSMo 1939 § 5756)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 5646; 1919 § 642; 1909 § 915


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