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Executors and administrators to produce probate of will and letters of administration, and to submit to be examined on oath on trial of civil bill.
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52. Every executor or administrator may be compelled by summons, to be issued and signed in the manner herein-after prescribed for witnesses summoned to give evidence in civil bill courts, to attend and produce the probate (if any) of the will of the testator or the letters of administration of the testator or intestate (as the case may be), and submit to be examined on oath in open court touching the matters aforesaid on the trial of any such civil bill in any division where such cause shall be heard; and every executor or administrator who shall disobey any such summons shall forfeit and pay, to the party at whose request such summons was issued, the sum of ten pounds, as a penalty; but such fine or penalty may be reduced or wholly remitted, if the assistant barrister before whom he shall have been required to attend shall, upon good and sufficient cause being shown, think fit to reduce or remit the same.
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