(a) If, by any will, authority is given to several executors, or other persons, to sell real estate, and, if 1 or more of them die before the complete execution of the authority, such authority shall survive.

(b) If, by any will, real estate is devised to be sold, and no person is authorized to make the sale, the person, or persons, having the execution of the will, or the survivor or survivors of them, if several, may sell the real estate in execution of the devise.

(c) If, by any will, real estate is devised to a person or persons for life and after the death of such life tenant or life tenants to be sold, and no person is authorized to make the sale, the person or persons who have the execution of said will at the period when such sale is directed to be made, or the survivor or survivors of them, if several, may sell the real estate in execution of the devise.

(d) If, by any will, authority is given to an executor to sell real estate, and the person so named as executor therein dies, or is removed or discharged from the office of executor before the execution of the authority, or refuses or neglects to give bond, or renounces, or is incapable, the person or persons having the execution of the will, or the survivor or survivors of them, if several, may sell the real estate in execution of the devise.

(e) Whenever real estate is sold and conveyed in any such case as mentioned and provided for in this section, the purchaser or purchasers thereof shall take the same free and discharged from any liability as to the application, misapplication or nonapplication of the purchase money or any part thereof. Nothing in this section shall contravene any express direction contained in any will.

Code 1852, § 1906; 14 Del. Laws, c. 79, § 1; 24 Del. Laws, c. 235, § 1; Code 1915, § 3435; 30 Del. Laws, c. 211, § 1; Code 1935, § 3895; 12 Del. C. 1953, § 2724; 59 Del. Laws, c. 384, § 1; 70 Del Laws, c. 186, § 1.