The court, or the chancellor in vacation, may authorize the executor or administrator to sell personal property at a private sale.Codes, 1857, ch. 60, art. 87; 1871, § 1146; 1880, § 2035; 1892, § 1886; 1906, § 2061; Hemingway's 1917, § 1726; 1930, § 1684; 1942, § 581.
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