[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR72.19]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 72--DEATHS AND ESTATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 72.19  Responsibility if trustee for personal estate is present.

    Likewise, the law (22 U.S.C. 1175) stipulates that the consular 
officer should not take possession or dispose of the personal estate of 
a deceased citizen who has left in the country where the death occurred, 
or in which he was residing at the time of death, a ``trustee by him 
appointed.'' The language of the statute includes any person, natural or 
juristic, appointed by the decedent in a will, or appointed by a deed to 
hold legal title to the personal property for the benefit of a named 
beneficiary.

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