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· 3/9/1891

Estate of Law

Citations

  • 140 Pa. 444
  • 21 A. 429
  • 1891 Pa. LEXIS 858

Syllabus

<p>The creditors of one who, as the executor of a deceased executor, has filed an account as to the estate of the latter’s testator, being neither legatees, distributees, nor creditors of the estate settled, have no standing to contest the account on the adjudication thereof; McBride’s App., 72 Pa. 480; Braman’s App., 89 Pa. 78; Winton’s App., 111 Pa. 389; High’s Est., 136 Pa.222.</p>

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • under then-existing statutory framework, \former licensees do not possess any property right in their revoked licenses\ such that would trigger due process
  • “Our examination of the Act convinces us that the former holder of a revoked real estate license retains no property interest in that license once it has been revoked by the Commission through a procedure consistent with due process.”
  • “To have a property interest in a benefit or privilege that is protected by due process, one must clearly have more than an abstract need or desire for it or an unilateral expectation of it, rather, he must have a legitimate claim of entitlement to it.”
  • “[t]o have a property interest in a benefit or privilege that is protected by procedural due process, one must clearly have more than an abstract need or desire for it or an unilateral expectation of it, rather, he must have a legitimate claim of entitlement to it.”

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Judges: Clark, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Paxson, Williams

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