[ Text of section effective until March 31, 2012. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 19. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44 as amended by 2010, 409, Sec. 23 and 2011, 224.]

  Section 26. If a creditor who has failed to receive his dividend as aforesaid has died, the probate court for the county where administration on his estate might have been granted shall, at any time before a decree to distribute the unclaimed dividends is passed, grant administration upon his estate, although more than twenty years may have elapsed since his death, and the administrator may receive and administer such dividend.