Any person who shall embezzle or shall, without being thereto authorized by law, injuriously intermeddle with any personal property of a deceased person shall be liable as an executor in his or her own wrong to the creditors and other persons aggrieved. History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 844; G.L. 1909, ch. 312, § 30; G.L. 1923, ch. 363, § 30; G.L. 1938, ch. 575, § 28; G.L. 1956, § 33-9-26.
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