If a sale, made by an executor or former administrator, shall be returned by a successor administrator, the purchase money shall be payable to the latter, but such payment shall not be made nor the sale approved until the successor administrator gives bond in the Court of Chancery as prescribed in § 2713 of this title; and in that case, the Court may discharge the bond of the executor or former administrator upon such terms as may be deemed proper.

Code 1852, § ?1901; Code 1915, § ?3431; Code 1935, § ?3891; 12 Del. C. 1953, § ?2719; 57 Del. Laws, c. 402, § ?3; 59 Del. Laws, c. 384, § ?1; 70 Del Laws, c. 186,, § ?1;