When an executor or administrator has paid a legacy under the order of a Court, he is entitled to call upon the legatee to refund in the event of the assets proving insufficient to pay all the legacies.
PART IX PROBATE, LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF ASSETS OF DECEASED · CHAPTER XII.—Of the Refunding of Legacies
Section 356: Refund of legacy paid under Court’s orders
The Indian Succession Act, 1925