(1) Where any person, not being a person to whom a grant is made, obtains,
receives or holds the estate or any part of the estate of a deceased person
otherwise than for full and valuable consideration, or effects the release of
any debt or liability due to the estate of the deceased, the person shall be
charged as executor in the person’s own wrong to the extent of the estate
received or coming into the person’s hands, or the debt or liability
released, after deducting any payment made by the person which might properly
be made by a personal representative to whom a grant is made.
(2) An executor
who has intermeddled in the administration of the estate before applying for a
grant of probate may renounce his or her executorship notwithstanding his or
her intermeddling.
(3) A personal representative may ratify and adopt any act
done on behalf of the estate by another if the act was one which the personal
representative might properly have done himself or herself.