2016 Minnesota Statutes

525.253 SALE OF DEVISED PROPERTY.

Subdivision 1.General rule.

Unless a contrary intent appears from the will, an agreement made by a testator for the sale or transfer of real property disposed of by the will previously made, does not revoke or adeem such disposal; but all the right, title, and interest of the decedent in such property and in said agreement shall pass, according to the terms of the will. Such an agreement shall be enforceable and subject to the same remedies for specific performance or otherwise against the devisees as exists against a decedent's successors if the same passed by succession.

Subd. 2.Applicability.

This section shall be applicable to estates of decedents dying after June 5, 1969.

History:

1969 c 944 s 1,2; 1975 c 347 s 99