Acts and Regulations

P-19 - Property Act

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Effect of death on agreement for sale
61(1)Where, at the death of a 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, in any land, his personal representatives may 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.
61(2)A conveyance made under this section does 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.
R.S., c.177, s.58