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Statutes > Alabama > Title43 > Chapter2 > 43-2-468Section 43-2-468
Sale or division of land received on compromise.
Real estate received by an executor or administrator in payment of any bad or doubtful claim, on a compromise of such claim made under an order of the probate court, may be distributed by the court having jurisdiction of the estate, by sale or division, upon the same proceedings as are had for the sale or division of real estate of decedents; but such real estate, or the proceeds thereof, if sold, must otherwise be treated and distributed as personal property.
(Code 1867, §2132; Code 1876, §2507; Code 1886, §2132; Code 1896, §187; Code 1907, §2652; Code 1923, §5882; Code 1940, T. 61, §276.)