Title LVI, Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates

Every person who has sold real estate by virtue of a license from a judge shall, within one year after the sale, return the license to the probate court with an account of the sale and with an affidavit showing the times, places and manner of giving notice of sale, subscribed and…

When a person deceased had contracted in writing to convey real estate, and the party contracted with has performed or is ready to perform the conditions of the contract, or if the contract was verbal and the party contracted with has performed or partly performed its conditions,…

When it shall appear by the will of a person deceased to have been his intention that his executor should dispose of his real estate for any lawful purpose, the judge may license the administrator to sell it for the purpose and in the manner intended by the testator.

Unless the will otherwise provides, an administrator or executor with the written consent of the widow or widower and the heirs at law or devisees, or the guardians or conservators of such of them as are under disability, may sell the whole or any part of the real estate of a dec…

Any sale made under RSA 559:18 shall convey title to said real estate free from all claims of creditors of the decedent and of all other persons claiming under the decedent or under his will, but the claims of all such persons shall be a charge upon the proceeds of the sale. The …

The license may extend to the reversion of the homestead right and of any interest in land whatever; but any other estate than a present fee shall be particularly specified in the application, notice and license.

Fraudulent conduct in the sale of real estate, misappropriation of the proceeds thereof, or refusal to account for the same, shall be a breach of the administrator's bond.

Any administrator, purchaser, or person interested may petition the judge to perpetuate the evidence of any facts set forth in a petition relative to any proceeding connected with administration, and the judge, after due notice, may decree that all or any of the facts are proved,…

If the real estate is so situate that a part thereof cannot be sold without injury to the persons interested therein license may, on application, be granted to sell the whole, though it may be more than sufficient for the payment of said demands.

The judge may grant license to the administrator to sell the timber or wood growing or standing on any real estate of the deceased, whenever the sale thereof, separate from the real estate, will be beneficial to the persons interested; and such timber or wood shall be deemed real…

Whenever it shall be necessary to sell real estate for the payment of debts the judge, on application of the administrator, with the assent of the widow or surviving husband, if any, and, if there is no widow or surviving husband, then with the assent of the guardian of the minor…

The proceeds of any sale made under such license shall be accounted for and distributed as provided in RSA 559:19.

No license shall be granted if the heirs or devisees will give to the judge a bond, with sufficient sureties, for the payment of such just demands and to indemnify the administrator therefrom.

The judge, either before or after a license to sell real estate is granted, may require from the administrator a bond, with sufficient sureties, to account for the proceeds of the sale in such manner as the judge shall order.

Such sale may be made either at auction or private sale as is deemed most beneficial to the estate, and the license issued by the judge shall designate the manner in which the sale is to be made, or may authorize the administrator to sell in either mode he deems to be for the bes…