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CONVEYANCING ACT 1881 - SECT 4

Completion of contract after death.

4.(1) Where at the death of any person there is subsisting a contract
enforceable against his heir or devisee, for the sale of the fee simple or
other freehold interest, descendible to his heirs general, in any land, his
personal representatives shall, by virtue of this Act, have power to convey
the land for all the estate and interest vested in him at his death, in any
manner proper for giving effect to the contract.

(2) A conveyance made under this section shall not affect the beneficial
rights of any person claiming under any testamentary disposition or as heir or
next of kin of a testator or intestate.

(3) This section applies only in cases of death after the commencement of
this Act.

Provision by Court for incumbrances, and sale freed therefrom.



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