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...When satisfied that it would be for the advantage of the creditors of the assignor, and on written application therefor by three-fourths in number and amount of such creditors, the probate court may order any business carried on by the assignor at the time of the assignment, to be continued by the assignee or trustee. When the court deems it to the advantage of the creditors to discontinue the business, it shall orde...

...The probate court shall order the payment of all encumbrances and liens upon any property sold for the benefit of creditors, or rights and credits collected, out of the proceeds thereof, according to priority.

...When real property to be sold, or which has been contracted to be sold by an assignor prior to the assignment for the benefit of creditors, is encumbered with liens, or when questions in regard to the title, or the dower estate of the wife or widow of the assignor, require a decree to settle them, the assignee may commence a civil action therefor in the court of common pleas or probate court of the proper county, mak...

...The proceeds of all the real property of the assignor sold by court order for the benefit of creditors, after payment of liens, encumbrances and the contingent dower rights and interest of his wife or widow, must be reported to the probate court by the assignee, and disposed of as provided in sections 1313.01 to 1313.59, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Sections 1313.21 to 1313.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code relating to the wife of the assignor as a party to the proceedings thereunder and her rights by virtue thereof, and also relating to ordering property sold at private sale, and upon terms of credit, apply to proceedings under sections 1313.33 and 1313.34 of the Revised Code.

...Sections 1313.21 to 1313.35 of the Revised Code do not impair the right of a person to an exemption under division (A)(1) of section 2329.66 of the Revised Code, or the mode provided for enforcing the right.

...Sections 1313.01 to 1313.59, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not take away or limit the jurisdiction of any court of record in which an action to foreclose a mortgage, to quiet title, or in any way to affect the title to or possession of all or part of the real property assigned is pending, at date of an assignment for the benefit of creditors. In such action the assignee may be made a party, with right to defend, ...

...When an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors commences an action, in the court of common pleas or probate court of the proper county, to sell real property, making all persons in interest parties thereto, and at the time fixed for hearing his petition the court is satisfied that all parties in interest have been notified of its pendency, and that such land ought to be sold, if the petition seeks to have i...

...Creditors must present their claims within six months after publication of the notice provided for in section 1313.14 of the Revised Code, unless further time is given by the probate court for their allowance. The assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors shall indorse his allowance or rejection thereon. Persons whose claims are rejected are required to bring suit against such assignee or trustee to enforce su...

...Immediately after the expiration of six months time, within which creditors must present their claims, the assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors must file in the probate court a report of all claims presented to him for allowance, their several amounts, the date from which, and the rate at which they are entitled to interest, specifying claims allowed and those rejected, with the date of allowance or rejec...

...If the assignor or a creditor files in the probate court a written requisition on the assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors to disallow any claims presented which he has not reported as disallowed, and enters into bond to said assignee or trustee in such amount and with such sureties as the court approves, conditioned to pay all the costs and expenses of contesting them by the order of the court, such clai...

...Each person presenting and filing a claim against the estate of the debtor, before it is allowed or any payments made thereon, must make and file an affidavit setting forth that the claim is just and lawful, the consideration thereof, and what counterclaims exist thereto; what collateral or personal security the claimant holds for the claim, or that he has no security. The assignee or trustee for the benefit of credi...

...Taxes of every description assessed against the assignor upon personal property held by him before his assignment for the benefit of creditors must be paid by the assignee or trustee out of the proceeds of the property assigned in preference to any other claims against the assignor.

...Persons who have performed labor in the service of the assignor within twelve months next preceding an assignment for the benefit of creditors, are entitled to receive out of the trust funds, before the paying of other creditors, the full amount of wages due for such labor not exceeding three hundred dollars. This section and section 1313.43 of the Revised Code do not prejudice or affect securities given, or liens ob...

...An assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors must file an account with the probate court at the expiration of eight months from his appointment and qualification, and as often thereafter as the court orders. Such account shall contain a full exhibit of all his doings as such, up to the time of filing, together with the amount of all claims remaining uncollected, and the amount thereof which in his opinion may...

...The probate judge shall cause notice of the filing of accounts by assignees or trustees for the benefit of creditors, and commissioners of insolvents, to be published in some newspaper of the county, specifying when such accounts will be heard, not less than three weeks after the publication of such notice, at which time it shall be competent, for cause, to allow further time to file exceptions to such accounts. The ...

...The probate judge may examine under oath, all assignees or trustees for the benefit of creditors and commissioners of insolvents, touching their accounts. Such judge may reduce such examination to writing, and require such assignee, trustee, or commissioner to sign it. Such examination must be filed with the papers in the case.

...When, on settlement, a balance is shown in the hands of the assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors, subject to distribution among the general creditors, a dividend shall be declared by the probate judge, payable therefrom equally among all the creditors entitled, in proportion to the amount of their respective claims against the assignor, including those disallowed, which the claimant has begun suit to esta...

...Dividends provided for in section 1313.48 of the Revised Code reserved for claims disallowed, or held under advisement, when actions to enforce their allowance have been commenced, shall be held until the actions terminate, when they shall be paid on claims the allowance of which has been ordered. Otherwise, such dividends must be distributed pro rata among other creditors not paid in full, or refunded to the assigno...

...Before a dividend provided for in section 1313.48 of the Revised Code is declared, the assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors may be allowed the following commission upon the amount of the personal estate collected and accounted for by him, and of the proceeds of the real property sold under an order of court for the payment of debts, which must be received in full compensation of all his ordinary services:...

...Such allowance shall be made as the probate court considers just for necessary expense, extraordinary expenses, extraordinary services not required of an assignee for the benefit of creditors in the common course of his duty, and such reasonable counsel fees as were necessary for the proper administration of the assignment, whether performed by the assignee or trustee as attorney, or such other as he employs. No suc...

...The probate judge shall be entitled to the following fees for service performed under sections 1313.01 to 1313.59, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) For hearing and deciding each application, two dollars; (B) For appointing or removing an assignee or trustee, one dollar; (C) For filing assignment, inventory, and schedule, each, ten cents; (D) For filing other papers, each five cents; (E) For other services, th...

...A sale, conveyance, transfer, mortgage, or assignment, made in trust or otherwise by a debtor, and every judgment suffered by him against himself in contemplation of insolvency and with a design to prefer one or more creditors to the exclusion in whole or in part of others, and a sale, conveyance, transfer, mortgage, or assignment made, or judgment procured by him to be rendered, in any manner, with intent to hinder...

...Section 1313.56 of the Revised Code does not apply unless the person to whom such sale, conveyance, transfer, mortgage, or assignment is made, knew of such fraudulent intent on the part of such debtor. Said section does not vitiate or affect any mortgage made in good faith to secure any debt or liability created simultaneously with such mortgage, if such mortgage is filed for record in the county wherein the property...

...Any creditor as to whom any of the acts or things prohibited in sections 1313.56 and 1313.57 of the Revised Code are void, whether the claim of such creditor has matured or will thereafter mature, may commence an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to have such acts or things declared void. Such court shall appoint a trustee or receiver under sections 1313.01 to 1313.59 of the Revised Code, who, upon being du...