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Effect of appeal - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 793

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     § 793.  Effect of appeal.
        No appeal from an order or decree of an orphans' court
     division concerning the validity of a will or the right to
     administer shall suspend the powers or prejudice the acts of a
     personal representative acting thereunder. The reversal or
     modification of any decree of an orphans' court division in a
     proceeding in which the division has jurisdiction of the sale,
     mortgage, exchange or conveyance of real or personal estate
     shall not divest any estate or interest acquired thereunder by a
     person not a party to the appeal.

        Saved from Repeal.  Section 793 is saved from repeal by the
     act of April 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, which put into effect the
     provisions of Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure).

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