This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
The administrator, when acting for the estate, must use proper diligence. If he acts with ordinary-care in the discharge of his duties, neither he nor his sureties are held answerable for losses which occur, and which could not have been avoided, nor against which ordinary precaution might guard.
 
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