Administration and Probate — Administration — Order to administer granted to Public Trustee in Tasmania — Deceased domiciled in Tasmania — Property in Victoria — Curator of Intestate Estates — Who entitled to administer — Administration and Probate Act 1890 (No. 1060), ss. 40, 44, 52, 55.

Administration and probate — Administration — Application for — Trustee company — Authority — Next of kin — Person entitled to obtain administration — Person, to whom administration would be granted, of kin of intestate but not entitled to share in estate — Whether such person is one of "next of kin" who may authorize application — The Perpetual Executors and Trustees Association's Act (49 Vict., No. 840), s. 4; Administration and Probate Act 1915 (No. 2611), s. 7 (2).

Administration and probate — Administration — All assets believed to have been got in — Assets insufficient to pay creditors in full — Release by creditors — Subsequent discovery of fresh assets — Conflicting claims of creditors and next of kin — Effect of release — Statute of Limitations — Rights of creditors prejudiced by delay of administrator in disclosing discovery of fresh assets — Circumstances in which it would be inequitable to allow administrator to raise the statute or the analogous rule in Equity — Company — Dissolution — Bona vacantia — Rights of Crown — Companies Act 1915 (No. 2631), ss. 22 (2), 230 et seq. — Supreme Court Act 1915 (No. 2733), ss. 79 (1) (d), 85 (4).

Administration and probate — Administration — Administrator out of jurisdiction — Bond — Execution — Attorney under power — Administration and Probate Act 1915 (No. 2611), s. 18.

Administration and probate — Administration — Statute of Distributions (22 & 23 Car. II., c. 10) — Intestacy — Murder — Death of intestate caused by intestate's wife — Whether curator of wife's property entitled to share in intestate's estate — Absolute statutory right — Whether qualified by consideration of public policy — Right of children to whole estate.

Administration and probate — Administration — Priority — Crown debt — Estate of intestate insufficient to pay debts in full — Debt due to Government of Victoria in respect of purchases of wheat by intestate from Minister of Agriculture — Whether Crown debt — Practice — Costs — Representative defendant to originating summons — Costs disallowed — Order LXV., r. 14 (A) — Wheat Marketing Act 1915 (No. 2812) as amended by Wheat Marketing Act 1917 (No. 2917).

Administration and probate — Administration — Estate duty — Property forming subject of gift inter vivos — Duty on — Liability of executor — Executor's right to recoup — Charge by Crown over property given — Subrogation of executor — Estate Duty Assessment Act 1914 (No. 22 of 1914), ss. 8 (1), 8 (4) (a), 34, 35 — Estate Duty Act 1914 (No. 25 of 1914), s. 3.

Administration and probate — Administration — Emblements — Will — Growing crop at testator's death on land devised — Residuary gift — Share-farming agreement — Whether devisee or residuary beneficiaries entitled.

Administration and probate — Administration — Distribution of assets — Proprietary claim to portion of assets — Whether claim "against the estate" — Extension of time — Discretion of Court to make order — Trusts Act 1915 (No. 2741), s. 31 (3).

Administration and probate — Administration — Executor and trustee — Commission — Provision in will — Rate of commission upon income fixed — Accompanied by declaration that a specified executor should be entitled to a specific sum as commission on corpus — Whether other executors entitled to commission on corpus — Administration and Probate Act 1915 (No. 2611), s. 34.

Administration and probate — Administration — Duties on deceased persons' estates — Interest of deceased in third person's estate — Subject to life annuity — Death of annuitant pending final assessment of value of interest — Valuation of interest, method of — Valuation of annuity — Whether fact of annuitant's death should form basis of assessment — Administration and Probate Act 1915 (No. 2611), ss. 122, 124.

Administration and probate — Administration — Duties on deceased persons' estates — Interest of deceased in third person's estate — Subject to life annuity — Death of annuitant pending final assessment of value of interest — Valuation of interest, method of — Valuation of annuity — Whether fact of annuitant's subsequent death pending final assessment of value of deceased's interest relevant to assessment — Administration and Probate Act 1915 (No. 2611), ss. 122, 124, 128.

Administration and probate — Administration — Will — Disappearance of legatee in testator's lifetime — Unmarried — No evidence of death — Lapse of over 40 years — Presumption of death unmarried in testator's lifetime — Facts raising presumption — Leave granted to distribute estate on that footing.

Administration and Probate — Administration — Power of administrator to concur in a partition — Trustee Act 1928 (No. 3792), sec. 57.