An executor or administrator with the will annexed, having, by the terms of the testator’s will, power to sell any undivided interest in any real estate of which his or her testator died seised, shall have the power to bring an action to effect a partition of the real estate in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. “Tenant in common” as used in this chapter shall include an executor or administrator acting under this section.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-15-4
Action by executor or administrator as tenant in common
G.L., ch. 586, § 31, as enacted by P.L. 1942, ch. 1147, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 34-15-4.
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