Application to real estate of law affecting chattels real

(1) Subject to this Act, all enactments and rules of law, and the jurisdiction of the court with respect to the appointment of administrators or to probate or letters of administration, or to dealings before probate in the case of chattels real, and with respect to costs and other matters in the administration of personal estate, in force before the commencement of this Act, and all powers, duties, rights, equities, obligations and liabilities of a personal representative in force at the commencement of this Act with respect to chattels real, shall apply and attach to the personal representative and shall have effect with respect to real estate vested in him. real. (2) In particular, all such powers of disposition and dealing as were before the commencement of this Act exercisable as respects chattels real by the survivor or survivors of two or more personal representatives, as well as by a single personal representative, or by all the personal representatives together, 14 Administration of Estates Act shall be exercisable by the personal representatives or representative of the deceased with respect to his real estate.