Personal liability of representatives of stockholders
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/us/usc/t12/s66
Title
12 — Banks and Banking
Chapter
CH2
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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Persons holding stock as executors, administrators, guardians, or trustees, shall not be personally subject to any liabilities as stockholders; but the estates and funds in their hands shall be liable in like manner and to the same extent as the testator, intestate, ward, or person interested in such trust funds would be, if living and competent to act and hold the stock in his own name.
(R.S. § 5152.)
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 5152 derived from act June 3, 1864, ch. 106, § 63, 13 Stat. 118, which was the National Bank Act. See section 38 of this title.
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