Legal Term: QUOD COMPUTET

Definition: The name of an interlocutory judgment in an action of account render: also the name of a decree in the case of creditors bills against executors or administrators. Such a decree directs the master to take the accounts between the deceased and all his creditors, to cause the creditors, upon due and public notice to come before him to prove their debts, at a certain place, and within a limited period, and also directs the master to take an account of all personal estate of the deceased in the hands of the executor or administrator. Story, Eq. Jur. SS 548. See Judgment quod computet.

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