If the assets, after payment of debts, necessary
expenses and specific legacies, are not sufficient to pay all the general legacies
in full, the latter shall abate or be diminished in equal proportions ;
and, in the absence of any direction to the contrary in the will, the executor has no right to pay one legatee in preference to another, nor to retain any money on account of a legacy to himself or to any person for whom he is a trustee.
and, in the absence of any direction to the contrary in the will, the executor has no right to pay one legatee in preference to another, nor to retain any money on account of a legacy to himself or to any person for whom he is a trustee.