The power of the court to approve, ratify, confirm and validate acts or transactions entered into by a personal representative of the estate without court authorization includes, without limitation, retention of real or personal property, compromises of claims by and against the estate, purchases, sales, mortgages, exchanges, abandonment, leases of any duration, improvements, contracts to improve, contracts to sell, contracts to purchase, and contracts to exchange and grants of options, easements, profits or other rights with respect to land or other property. It also includes, without limitation, payment of a mortgage indebtedness on the real estate of the decedent out of the personal estate and purchase of real estate at a sale made under a mortgage, deed of trust, vendor's lien or other lien held by the decedent.
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