No preference among debts of same class.

No executor or administrator must, before the expiration of six months from the grant of letters, give a preference in the payment of any debt over others of the same class; nor is a debt due and payable entitled to any preference over debts of the same class which are not due.

(Code 1852, §1742; Code 1867, §2065; Code 1876, §2431; Code 1886, §2080; Code 1896, §127; Code 1907, §2598; Code 1923, §5823; Code 1940, T. 61, §219.)