557.—Equitable assets. Equitable assets are all assets which are chargeable with the payment of debts or legacies in equity, and which do not fall under the description of legal assets. 1 Story, Eq. Jun § 552. Those portions of the property which by the ordina rules of law are exempt from debts, but whic the testator has voluntarily charged as assets, or which, being non-existent at law, have been created in equity. Adams, Eq. 254, et seq. They are so called because they can be reached only by the aid and instrumentality of a court of equity, and because their distribution ’ is governed by a different rule from that which overns the distribution of legal assets. 2 onbl. Eq. b. 4, pt. 2, c. 2, § 1, and notes; Story, Eq. Jur. § 552.—Legal assets. That portion of the assets of a deceased party which by law is directly liable, in the hands of his executor or administrator, to the payment of debts and legacies. 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 551. Such arsets as can be reached in the hands of an executor or administrator, by a suit at law against him.—-Personal assets. Chattels, money, and other personal property belonging to a bankrupt, insolvent, or decedent estate, which go to the assignee or executor.—Real assets. Lands or real estate in the hands of an heir, chargeable with the payment of the debts of the ancestor. 2 Bl. Comm. 244, 302.

66, 18 N. E. 537, 15 Am. St. Rep. 552.

496.

55, 55 N. E. 172; Maloney v. Johnson-McLean Co., 72 Neb. 340, 100 N. W. 424.

338; Allen v. Bland, 134 Ind. 78, 83 N. E. 774.

111; Major v. Herndon, 78 Ky. 123.

61.

259, 52 N. E. Am. St. Rep

442, 62 NY. KE. 1044: aun v. Alexander, 3 Johns. (N. Y.) 484. 3 Am. Dec. 517. —Good country. In Scotch law. Good men of the country. A name given to a jury.— Good faith. Good faith consists in an honest intention to abstain from taking any unconscientious advantage of another, even through

6138, 10 N. BH 160.

431; In re Gibb’s Estate, 157 Pa. Wild v.

587; Harris v. Rutledge, 19 Iowa, 388, 87 Am. Dec. 441; Sullivan v. Richardson, 83 Fla. 1, 14 South. 602; Wood’ v. Vermont

442, 70 Am. Dec. 85.

405, 47 N. EB. 587; U. 8S. v. Lyman, 26 Fed. Cas. 1,024; Frost v. Witter, 132 Cal. 421, 64 Pac. 705, 84 Am. St. Rep. 53.

460, 23 Am. Rep. 762; In re Buchanan, 146 N. Y. 264, 40 N. B. 883.

177, 26 N. E. 979, 20 Am. St. Rep. 540. See, also, BET.

287.