24. Every notary has and has always had the right to take the proceedings necessary for:(a) a voluntary partition, and
(b) a voluntary sale of property in which persons suffering legal incapacity or absentees have an undivided interest as proprietors, provided that all the other co-proprietors of age agree with the tutors or curators of such persons or absentees to proceed in this way.
In such cases, it has always been legal to proceed by petition or motion instead of by suit.
1968, c. 70, s. 24; 1999, c. 40, s. 197.