Every executor, administrator, or trustee has full power to sell, upon application to the probate court, so much of the property of the decedent as will enable him or her to pay any tax imposed by chapter 22 of this title in the manner he or she might be entitled by law to do for the payment of the debts of the testator or intestate.
History of Section.
P.L. 1916, ch. 1339, § 21; G.L. 1923, ch. 39, §§ 19-21; P.L. 1926, ch. 810, § 1; P.L. 1929, ch. 1355, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 43, §§ 19, 20; P.L. 1939, ch. 664, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 44-23-23.