Protection of official receivers and truProtection of official receivers and trustees from personal liability in certain cases.

### Protection of official receivers and trustees from personal liability in certain cases. E.B.A., s. 61. Vic., s. 17. 111. Where the official receiver or trustee has seized or disposed of any goods, chattels, property, or other effects in the possession or on the premises of a bankrupt without notice of any claim by any person in respect of the goods, chattels, property or other effects, and it is thereafter made to appear that the goods, chattels, property, or other effects were not, at the date of the sequestration order, the property of the bankrupt, the official receiver or trustee shall not be personally liable for any loss or damage arising from the seizure or disposal sustained by any person claiming the property, nor for the costs of any proceedings taken to establish a claim thereto, unless the Court is of opinion that the official receiver or trustee has been guilty of negligence in respect of the seizure or disposal. Division 6.—Distribution of Property.