company may be appointed to act as temporary executor or administrator
13 company may be appointed to act as temporary executor or administrator
An executor or administrator or trustee may appoint a trustee company to act as executor or administrator or trustee in his or her place, and a trustee company if appointed by deed filed in accordance with any law providing for the filing of powers of attorney may act within the scope of the authority given to it as effectually as the executor or administrator or trustee could have acted and may exercise all discretionary and other powers delegated by the principal as fully as the principal could have exercised them, and after the filing of the deed and before the registration of the death of the principal or of the revocation of the authority given by the principal every act of the trustee company within the scope of the authority given shall, in favour of any person who deals with the trustee company, bona fide, and without notice of the death of the principal or of his or her revocation of the authority, be valid and effectual notwithstanding the revocation by, or death of, the principal.
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