If any person sell lands, enter into contract to make title, and die before the title be made, then the person to whom the title was to be made, his heirs or assigns, may petition the court which granted the letters on the estate of the vendor, for an order on the executor or administrator to make title agreeably to the contract. After the parties interested have been cited by summons or by publication, the court shall hear the petition and evidence, and may decree that the executor or administrator make title according to the contract.
Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-221
Executor or administrator to make title to land
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 879 So. 2d 467 - In Re Estate of Pickett (2004)
Most recently applied in 879 So. 2d 467 - In Re Estate of Pickett (February 2004)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 49, art. 1 (114); 1857, ch. 60, art. 137; 1871, § 1195; 1880, § 2092; 1892, § 1902; 1906, § 2077; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1744; 1930, § 1706; 1942, § 603.
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