Section 43-2-440
Renting of lands.
The executor or administrator may rent the decedent's lands at public outcry, or, when the interest of the estate requires it, privately; and such rent is assets; but when lands are rented privately, he must report such renting to the probate court of the proper county within 30 days thereafter.
(Code 1852, §1751; Code 1867, §2076; Code 1876, §2446; Code 1886, §2102; Code 1896, §154; Code 1907, §2618; Code 1923, §5846; Code 1940, T. 61, §242.)