Order  of  lAability  of  Assets
to  Debts 33

1.  General  Personal

Estate         ..         ..33

2.  Lands      devised     for

Payment  of  Debts..   33

3.  Estates  descending  to

Heir  ..         ..34

4.  Property    given,    but

subject  to  Debts     . .   34

5.  General       pecuniary

Legacies  and  Realty
comprised  in  a  Resi-
duary Devise  . .  34
Case  of  Hensman
V.  Fryer           . .  34

6.  Specific  Legacies  and

Land       specifically
Devised        ..  . .   35

7.  Property      appointed

under  a  Pomer       , ,  35


Order  of  Liability,  l;c. — contd.
Properties  liable  in  same
degree,         contribute
equally  . .  . .   36

Order  of  Priority  of  Debts . .  35

1.  Crown  Debts  . .         . .   35

2.  Certain         Statutory

Debts  ..  ..35

3.  Registered  Judgments

and  Decrees  . .  35

4.  Recognizancesinrolled  36
6.  Specialty   Debts    and

Real..         ..  ..36

6.  Simple  Contract  Debts

and        Unregistered
Judgments  . .         . .   36

7.  Claims  for  Dilapida-

tions ■.         ..  . .   36

8.  Voluntary         Obliga-

tions ..  . .   36


Order  of  Liability  of  Assets  to  Debts.]     Subject  to  the
directions  of  a  testator  as  to  the  priority  of  liability  to  his
debts  of  any  particular  part  of  his  property,  as  a  general
rule  it  is  liable  to  the  payment  of  them  in  the  following
order:     1.  Th'fe  general    personal  estate  not  specifically  be-  i.  General  per-
qneathed,  unless  exempted  by  express  words  or  necessary  so^i^  estate.
implication    {D.    Ancaster    v.   Mayer,   1  B.  C.  C.    454 ;
see   post,    tit.    "  Wills.")      2.  Lands    expressly   devised  2.  Lands  devised
for  the  payment  of  debts  {Lanoy  v.  D.  At  hoi,  2  Atk.  444  ;  *,''/i,^y'°™' <"
Harmood  v.  Oglander,  8  Ves.  124  ;  Phillips  v.  Parry,  22
W.  D


34  Order  of  Liability  of  Assets  to  Debts.
