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...At an election under section 1313.05 of the Revised Code creditors representing fifty per cent or more of the debts of the assignor, present or represented by attorney, may proceed to the election of trustees for the benefit of creditors, a majority in value of all the debts represented at such meeting being necessary to a choice. The proceedings of the meeting showing what creditors were present, the amount of the ...

...The probate court may remove an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors, specifying in the order the cause of removal.

...A surety of an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors, or the executor or administrator of such surety, at any time may make application to the probate court to be released from the bond of such assignee or trustee, by filing his written request therefor with the judge of such court, and giving at least five days' notice, in writing, to such assignee or trustee. If, upon the hearing, the court is of opinion...

...An assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors at any time may make application to the probate court for the release of his sureties, by filing his written request with the judge of such court, and giving at least five days' notice, in writing, to such sureties. If, upon the hearing, the court is of opinion that there is good reason to release said sureties it shall order said assignee or trustee to file an acco...

...If an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors fails to give new bond, as directed by the probate court, he must be removed and his letters superseded. The original sureties shall not be released until the assignee or trustee gives new bond, but the original sureties are liable for said assignee or trustee's acts only from the time of executing the original bond to the filing and approval by the court of the ...

...ssary to put him into possession of all property, moneys, books, papers, evidences of title, and other effects covered by the assignment, or in any way belonging to the trust. By suit in the court of common pleas, or otherwise, such trustee may compel the delivery to him of all such property, moneys, books, papers, evidences of title, and other effects.

...t, or deliver over to his successor all property, moneys, books, evidences of title, papers, and other effects belonging to the trust, such successor may proceed against such assignee or trustee by action in the court of common pleas or otherwise, on his bond or his legal representative and the sureties in such bond.

...rates as a conveyance to him of all the property originally assigned to such assignee.

...Each assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors appointed on the failure of the assignee of a debtor to qualify, within thirty days after giving bond, must give notice of his appointment in some newspaper of general circulation in the county, for three successive weeks.

...disinterested persons appraisers of the property and assets of the assignor. Such assignee or trustee, within thirty days after giving bond, unless for good cause the court allows a longer time, must make and file therein an inventory, verified by his oath, of all the property, moneys, rights, and credits of the assignor included in the assignment, which have come to his possession or knowledge, together with an ap...

...the benefit of creditors, includes real property situated without this state, it is not necessary to have it appraised, but the assignee, or trustee appointed, shall sell such real property at public or private sale, and the sale shall be confirmed, if the court finds that it has been made in good faith for a fair price. At the time of filing the inventory as provided in section 1313.15 of the Revised Code, the assig...

...of creditors shall include or cover any property exempt from levy or sale on execution, or exempt from being applied to the payment of debts by any legal process, unless in the assignment the exemption is expressly waived. No such assignment shall include any property belonging to the wife of the assignor, nor require the assignor to deliver up any of such property.

...l set off in the way that appraisers of property levied on or attached are required to do, exempt property that has to be selected by the debtor. If the setting off is omitted, at any time after the appraisal and before sale, the court may order it to be done by the appraisers.

... a fraudulent transfer or change in the property or effects of the assignor or the allowance or payment of any unjust or fraudulent claim out of his estate.

...ation on oath as to the disposal of his property, his trade and dealings with others, and his accounts concerning them, as to all debts due or claimed from him, and to all other matters concerning his property and estate, and the due settlement thereof, which examination, at the request of any party to the proceeding, may be reduced to writing.

...y, and shall sell the real and personal property assigned, including stocks and such bonds, notes, and other claims as are not due and which probably cannot be collected within a reasonable time, at public auction, either for cash or upon such other terms as the probate court orders.

... the time and place of the sale of real property assigned for the benefit of creditors, shall be given by advertisement in some newspaper of general circulation in the county where such property is situated, for four consecutive weeks. The real property shall not be sold for less than two thirds of the appraised value thereof, but shall be subject to reappraisement as upon execution at law.

... time and place of the sale of personal property assigned for the benefit of creditors, shall be given for at least ten days prior to the day of sale, by advertisement in some newspaper of general circulation in the county, or by posting written or printed notices thereof in at least fifteen public places in the county, not less than five of which must be posted in the township in which the sale is to be held.

...l part, or all, of the real or personal property in this state assigned for the benefit of creditors at private sale, it may authorize the assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors to sell it either for cash or upon such other terms as the court orders. No real property lying in this state shall be sold for less than two thirds of its appraised value, nor shall any personal property be sold for less than two t...

...Any property, ordered to be sold by the probate court at private sale under section 1313.24 of the Revised Code, not sold within the time prescribed, shall be ordered to be sold at public auction, as though a private sale had not been ordered.

...plete and enforce all sales of the real property made by the assignor.

...Reports of sales of real property and personal property made under sections 1313.21 to 1313.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be returned to the probate court within the time prescribed. After having carefully examined the return, if satisfied that the sale has been legally made, the court shall confirm it and order the assignee or trustee to make a deed to the purchaser for the property sold. The court also m...

...If it is for the best interests of the creditors of the assignor, the probate court may order the assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors to sell without recourse any notes taken for deferred payments at not less than their face value with accrued interest, and direct the distribution of the proceeds.

...When real property is to be sold as provided in sections 1313.21 to 1313.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the husband or wife of the assignor may be made a party, and file an answer in the probate court to have such real property sold free of his or her contingent right of dower and to allow him or her in lieu thereof, out of the proceeds of the sale, such sum of money as the court deems the just and reasonable va...

...ntly have executed a mortgage upon real property assigned for the benefit of creditors, or when the assignor alone has executed a mortgage upon any of such real property to secure the payment of purchase money, or a part thereof, the probate court shall order its sale free from the contingent right of dower of such wife, and shall determine the just and reasonable value of her dower interests in the proceeds of sale...