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2A:56-1.   "Cotenant" ;  executor or administrator with will annexed; definition and construction
    As used in this chapter:

     "Court"  means the superior court.

      "Cotenant"  means and includes a tenant in common, joint tenant or coparcener, but not a tenant by the entirety.

     An executor or administrator with the will annexed, having, by the terms of  the testator's will, power to sell any real estate or any undivided interest in  any real estate of which his testator died seized, shall have the same power to  bring an action to effect a partition of such real estate as such testator  might have brought if living, and cotenant as used in this chapter shall  include such an executor or administrator so far as may be requisite for such  purposes.
 
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.