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Rocca v. Thompson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

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Judicial Decisions Involving Questions of Inteenational Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1912 , pp. 535 - 542
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1912

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1 Printed in this Journal, Vol. 4, p. 727.

* “Sec. 1709. It shall be the duty of consuls and vice-consuls, where the laws of the country permit:

“First. To take possession of the personal estate left by any citizen of the United States, other than seamen belonging to any vessel, who shall die within their consulate, leaving there no legal representative, partner in trade, or trustee by him appointed to take care of his effects.

“Second. To inventory the same with the assistance of two merchants of the United States, or, for want of them, of any others at their choice.

“Third. To collect the debts due the deceased in the country where he died, and pay the debts due from his estate which he shall have there contracted.

“Fourth. To sell at auction, after reasonable public notice, such part of the estate as shall be of a perishable nature, and such further part, if any, as shall be necessary for the payment of his debts, and, at the expiration of one year from his decease, the residue.

“Fifth. To transmit the balance of the estate to the Treasury of the United States; to be holden in trust for the legal claimants; except if at any time before such transmission the legal representative of the deceased shall appear and demand his effects in their hands they shall deliver them up, being paid their fees, and shall cease their proceedings.”