§ 11.56.005 Authority to exchange
§ 11.56.010 Authority to sell, lease or mortgage
§ 11.56.020 Sale, lease or mortgage of personal property
§ 11.56.030 Sale, lease or mortgage of real estate — Petition — Notice — Hearing
§ 11.56.040 Order directing mortgage
§ 11.56.045 Order directing lease
§ 11.56.050 Order directing sale
§ 11.56.060 Public sales — Notice
§ 11.56.070 Postponement, adjournment of sale — Notice
§ 11.56.080 Private sales of realty — Notice — Bids
§ 11.56.090 Minimum price — Private sale — Sale by negotiation — Reappraisement
§ 11.56.100 Confirmation of sale — Approval — Resale
§ 11.56.110 Offer of increased bid — Duty of court
§ 11.56.115 Effect of confirmation
§ 11.56.120 Conveyance after confirmation of sale
§ 11.56.180 Sale of decedent’s contract interest in land
§ 11.56.210 Assignment of decedent’s contract
§ 11.56.220 Redemption of decedent’s mortgaged estate
§ 11.56.230 Sale or mortgage to effect redemption
§ 11.56.240 Sale of mortgaged property if redemption inexpedient
§ 11.56.250 Sales directed by will
§ 11.56.265 Broker’s fee and closing expenses — Sale, mortgage or lease
§ 11.56.280 Borrowing on general credit of estate — Petition — Notice — Hearing
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 11.56 - Sales, exchanges, leases, mortgages, and borrowing

  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Issue: means all the lineal descendants of an individual. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal representative: includes executor, administrator, special administrator, and conservator or limited conservator and special representative. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Real estate: includes , except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto, and all interest therein possessed and claimed in fee simple, or for the life of a third person. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.