Tennessee § 30-2-303 - Sale of decedent's effects.
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§ 30-2-303. Sale of decedent's effects.
Unless otherwise directed by the will and unless the specific personal property is the subject of a bequest, the personal representative of a testate or intestate estate may, in the personal representative's discretion, sell the personal property of the decedent at public or private sale, for cash or on terms, in such manner and for such prices as the personal representative may deem advisable; but the personal representative shall not make a private sale to the personal representative, to business associates, to members of the personal representative's immediate family or to their agents without court approval or the written consent of all residuary distributees of the estate. The personal representative may employ persons or firms to conduct the sale and shall receive credit for all reasonable expenses of the sale in the final accounting. Code 1858, §§ 2243-2245 (deriv. Acts 1723, ch. 10, § 2; 1797, ch. 7, § 5); Shan., §§ 3979-3981; mod. Code 1932, §§ 8191-8193; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 30-503 — 30-505; Acts 1985, ch. 140, § 12. Cross-References. Duties of county clerk, § 18-6-106 . Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), §§ 722, 724, 725. Tennessee Forms (Robinson, Ramsey and Harwell), No. 4-1204.
Source: official Tennessee text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 30-2-303 ("Sale of decedent's effects.") is part of the Tennessee Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Tennessee. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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