§ 18-4-4. Power of sale.

(a) Where a trust for sale, or a power of sale of property, is vested in trustees, they may sell or concur with any other person in selling all or any part of the property, either subject to prior encumbrances or not, and either together or in lots, by public auction or by private contract, subject to any conditions respecting title or evidence of title or other matter as the trustees think fit, with power to vary any contract for sale and to buy in at any auction as the trustees deem advantageous, or to rescind any contract for sale and to resell without being answerable for any resulting loss.

(b) This section applies only if, and as far as, a contrary intention is not expressed in the instrument creating the trust or power, and shall have effect, subject to the terms of that instrument and to the provisions therein contained.

(c) This section applies only to a trust or power created by an instrument executed on or after the first day of February, 1896.