§ 58-481. Contract for the purchase of lands may be sold.

If a decedent, at the time of his death, was possessed of a contract for the purchase of land, his interests in such land and under such contracts may be sold on the application of his executor or administrator, in the same manner as if he had died seized of such land, and the same proceedings may be had for that purpose as are prescribed in this article for the sale of lands of which he died seized, except as hereinafter provided.

R.L.1910, § 6398.