156Validation of certain sales by administrators

156 Validation of certain sales by administrators

156 Validation of certain sales by administrators

In all cases where administration of the estate of a deceased person was granted before the twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand nine hundred (being the day of the commencement of the Administration (Validating) Act 1900), no sale of any land of such deceased person heretofore or hereafter made by the administrator shall be deemed to have been or to be invalid by reason—

(a) that the grant contains a prohibition against the sale of such land without the order of the Supreme Court in its ecclesiastical or probate jurisdiction, or

(b) that at the date of such sale a period of more than twenty years since the death of such deceased person had elapsed.