No power to act without letters

§ 20–311. No power to act without lettersAV here letters testamentary are granted to one or more of the executors named in a will on failure of the rest, an executor not named in the letters may not, in any manner, interfere with the administration. Where letter’s of administration with the will annexed are granted, an executor named in the will may not, in any manner, interfere with the administration. An executor named in a will may not, before letters testamentary are granted to him, dispose of any part of the estate of the deceased or interfere therewith, further than is necessary to collect and preserve it.