3In partition action Court may order sale instead of division

### 3 In partition action Court may order sale instead of division > *\[Section 3 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 \]*In an action for partition, where, if this Act had not been passed, an order for partition might have been made, then, if it appears to the Court that by reason of the nature of the property to which the action relates, or of the number of the parties interested or presumptively interested therein, or of the absence or disability of some of those parties, or of any other circumstances, a sale of the property and a distribution of the proceeds would be more beneficial for the parties interested than a division of the property between or among them, the Court may, if it thinks fit, on the request of any of the parties interested, and notwithstanding the dissent or disability of any others of them, direct a sale of the property accordingly, and may give all necessary or proper consequential directions.