68 Pa. Stat. § 111

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-111
Section 111 - Partition of personal property jointly owned

Whenever personal property is owned jointly, by persons who are not partners, or are not husband and wife, and any one of such persons desires to dispose of his or her right, title, and interest in said personal property, and cannot arrive at a satisfactory arrangement with the other owner or owners of such personal property for the disposition of such personal property, it shall be lawful for such person to petition to the court of common pleas of the county wherein such property is situated, citing the facts of such joint ownership, the value of the property, and the inability of the joint owners thereof to agree to the amiable disposition thereof; whereupon the said court shall appoint a trustee for said personal property, which trustee, upon the filing of a bond in a sum in double the amount of the value of the personal property as set forth in said petition, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of the said trustee as herein set forth, shall take immediate possession of said property.

68 P.S. § 111

1927, April 27, P.L. 460, § 1. Editorially renumbered from 12 P.S. § 1791 in 1981.