Succession of Peytavin

The executors of the last will of Peytavin having paid all the debts due by the succession, one of them filed a tableau, according to which they proposed to distribute the balance of the assets in their hands among the various legatees, the amount of the assets not being sufficient to pay the legacies in full. He charges himself with ten per cent interest on the sums' in hand, but with this reservation, that if any attempt should be made to render the executors liable for any of the debts mentioned in the present account, or-to render them responsible for any larger amount than that which is…