All courts having jurisdiction to partition real estate and order distribution among heirs and distributees, shall have full power to cause accounts to be taken and valuations of lands to be made, so as to enforce equality of partition and distribution.
Code 1858, § 2435 (deriv. Acts 1829, ch. 36, § 2); Shan., § 4178; Code 1932, § 8405; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 31-705.
Cross-References. Partition generally, title 29, ch. 27.
Partition or sale of property in chancery court, §16-11-111.
Probate jurisdiction transferred from county court to chancery court, title 16, ch. 16, part 2.
Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), § 823.