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Power to sell - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3351

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                               SUBCHAPTER C
                    SALES, PLEDGES, MORTGAGES, LEASES,
                          OPTIONS AND EXCHANGES

     Sec.
     3351.  Power to sell.
     3352.  Power to lease.
     3353.  Order of court.
     3354.  Power given in governing instrument.
     3355.  Restraint of sale.
     3356.  Purchase by personal representative.
     3357.  Title of purchaser.
     3358.  Collateral attack.
     3359.  Record of proceedings; county where real estate lies.
     3360.  Contracts, inadequacy of consideration or better offer;
            brokers' commissions.
     § 3351.  Power to sell.
        Except as otherwise provided by the will, if any, the
     personal representative may sell, at public or private sale, any
     personal property whether specifically bequeathed or not, and
     any real property not specifically devised, and with the joinder
     of the specific devisee real property specifically devised. When
     the personal representative has been required to give a bond, no
     proceeds of real estate, including proceeds arising by reason of
     involuntary conversion, shall be paid to him until the court has
     made an order excusing him from entering additional security or
     requiring additional security, and in the latter event, only
     after he has entered the additional security.
     (Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.867, No.293, eff. imd.)

        1974 Amendment.  Section 20(b) of Act 293 provided that the
     amendment of section 3351 shall be retroactive to July 1, 1972.

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