(a) General rule.--It shall be the duty of every outgoing sheriff to deliver all unfinished and unexecuted writs and process whatsoever to the sheriff's successor whose duty it shall be to receive and execute the same as if the writs and process had been originally issued and directed to the successor, and to carry out and complete all other official duties of the predecessor.

(b) Successor powers and duties.--Whenever any real estate shall be sold under any execution by a sheriff who shall, in any lawful manner, be succeeded in office before any deed shall be executed and acknowledged by the sheriff in due form of law for such real estate, the sheriff's successor in office shall have the same power and be under the same duty to execute and acknowledge a deed for such real estate to the purchaser as the sheriff selling such real estate under execution if the sheriff were still in office, which deed so executed shall be as effectual in law as if the title had been completed by the former sheriff.

(c) No court order necessary.--No court order shall be necessary in any event to authorize an incoming sheriff to carry out the duties as prescribed by this act.