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Terms Used In Indiana Code 28-1-9-7

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
   Sec. 7. If, at the time of liquidation such corporation shall hold any property, real or personal, in trust for any individual or corporation under or by virtue of any trust instrument, the agent shall convey, assign, and deliver such property to the successor trustee named in the trust instrument under which such property is held, or if no successor trustee be named in the trust instrument, to such individual or to a bank or trust company or corporate fiduciary that is qualified to exercise trust powers as may be designated in writing by the beneficiaries of such trust, or if no such designation is made after written notice to the beneficiaries, or if the beneficiaries are otherwise incompetent to designate a successor trustee, then to such individual or to such bank or trust company or corporate fiduciary that is qualified to exercise trust powers as may be appointed by the circuit, probate, or other court having jurisdiction of trusts in the county where the principal office of such corporation is located. No person eighteen (18) years of age or older shall be deemed incompetent by virtue of the person’s age to name a successor trustee. If any such corporation, at the time of liquidation, shall be acting as administrator, executor, guardian, receiver or in any other fiduciary capacity under the appointment of any court, the agent shall convey, assign, and deliver all of the property of such trust and all of such trust business, to such individual or to such bank or trust company or corporate fiduciary that is qualified to execute trusts, as may be appointed by the court having jurisdiction of such trust, upon the order and direction of such court.

Formerly: Acts 1933, c.40, s.148; Acts 1973, P.L.280, SEC.2. As amended by P.L.262-1995, SEC.28; P.L.136-2018, SEC.206.