The following acts are repealed absolutely:

The act of February 17, 1818 (P.L. 104, Ch. LII.), entitled “An act to compel trustees to account in certain cases, and for other purposes.”¹

The act of March 22, 1825 (P.L. 107, Ch. LXI.), entitled “An act to prevent the failure of trusts.”²

The act of April 14, 1828 (P.L. 453, No. 193), entitled “An act to prevent the failure of trusts, to provide for the settlement of accounts of trustees and for other purposes.”³

The act of March 21, 1831 (P.L. 192, No. 103), entitled “A further supplement to the act, entitled ‘A supplement to the act, entitled An act to compel assignees to settle their accounts, and for other purposes.’ ”⁴

The act of March 15, 1832 (P.L. 135, No. 80), entitled “An act relating to Registers and Registers' Courts.”⁵

The act of June 14, 1836 (P.L. 628, No. 175), entitled “An act relating to assignees for the benefit of creditors, and other trustees.”⁶

The act of March 17, 1838 (P.L. 80, No. 32), entitled “An act to empower the court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia to appoint assignees or trustees in the place of the deceased assignees or trustees of John Vaughan, and for other purposes.”⁷

The act of April 13, 1840 (P.L. 319, No. 140), entitled “A further supplement to an act, entitled an act relating to Orphan's courts, passed the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the supplement thereto, passed the fourteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and for other purposes.”⁸

The act of July 27, 1842 (P.L. 436, No. 126), entitled “An act to enable creditors to attach legacies and property inherited in the hands of Executors and Administrators, and for other purposes.”⁹

The act of April 29, 1844 (P.L. 527, No. 342), entitled “An act requiring registers for the probate of wills and granting letters of administration to keep a docket for certain purposes.”¹⁰

The act of April 10, 1848 (P.L. 448, No. 322), entitled “An act extending the chancery powers of, and to the jurisdiction and proceedings in, certain courts.”¹¹

The act of March 14, 1849 (P.L. 164, No. 142), entitled “An act relative to sales made by persons acting in a fiduciary capacity.”¹²

The act of March 14, 1850 (P.L. 195, No. 163), entitled “An act relating to conveyances by trustees.”¹³

The act of April 25, 1850 (P.L. 569, No. 347), entitled “An act relating to the bail of executrixes; to partition in the orphans' court and common pleas; to colored convicts in Philadelphia; to the limitation of actions against corporations; to actions enforcing the payment of ground rent; to trustees of married women; to appeals from awards of arbitrators by corporations; to hawkers and peddlers in the counties of Butler and Union; to the payment of costs in actions by informers in certain cases; to taxing lands situate in different townships; and in relation to fees of county treasurers of Lycoming, Clinton and Schuylkill; to provide for recording the accounts of executors, administrators, guardians and auditors' reports; and to amend and alter existing laws relative to the administration of justice in this commonwealth.”¹⁴

Section 7 of the act of October 28, 1851, 1852 (P.L. 724, No. 433), entitled “An act to annul the marriage contract of Philip Gangwer and Harriet his wife; relative to the trustee of the Green Ridge Improvement Company; the Loyalhanna Plank Road Company; to insane married women; and to the tax on the Short Mountain Coal Company.”¹⁵

The act of March 27, 1854 (P.L. 214, No. 183), entitled “An act relative to bringing suits by creditors and others against executors, administrators, assignees and other trustees in certain cases, and serving notices and for satisfaction of mortgages, and opening judgments in certain cases.”¹⁶

The act of April 30, 1855 (P.L. 386, No. 408), entitled “An supplement to the act, entitled ‘An act relating to assignees for the benefit of creditors and other trustees,’ approved the fourteenth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.”¹⁷

The act of May 3, 1855 (P.L. 415, No. 438), entitled “A supplement to an act relating to Assignees for the benefit of Creditors and other Trustees.”¹⁸

The act of April 17, 1856 (P.L. 386, No. 403), entitled “A supplement to an act relative to suits in dower and partition, passed twentieth February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.”¹⁹

The act of March 22, 1859 (P.L. 207, No. 209), entitled “An act relative to Orphans' Courts.”²⁰

The act of May 1, 1861 (P.L. 431, No. 403), entitled “An act authorizing surviving Executors and Administrators to execute and deliver Deeds of Conveyance in certain cases.”²¹

The act of May 1, 1861 (P.L. 680, No. 641), entitled “An act relating to Executors and other Trustees.”²²

The act of March 27, 1865 (P.L. 44, No. 30), entitled “An act providing additional remedies against trustees of a trust created for life or during marriage, and providing a remedy for the protection of their sureties.”²³

The act of April 11, 1866 (P.L. 780, No. 771), entitled “An act authorizing persons, whose wives, or husbands, are non compos mentis, to sell, mortgage, lease for years and convey, upon ground rent, real estate held in their own right.”²⁴

The act of April 17, 1866 (P.L. 111, No. 101), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act providing additional remedies against trustees of a trust, created for life, or during marriage, and providing a remedy for the protection of their sureties,’ approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.”²⁵

The act of April 9, 1868 (P.L. 785, No. 726), entitled “An act to authorize the court of common pleas and orphans' court of the city of Philadelphia to appoint and remove trustees.”²⁶

The act of February 26, 1869 (P.L. 4, No. 3), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act relative to the orphans' court,’ approved the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, confirming certain partitions.”²⁷

The act of April 13, 1869 (P.L. 28, No. 28), entitled “A supplement to the act relating to orphans' courts, approved the twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.”²⁸

The act of May 17, 1871 (P.L. 269, No. 250), entitled “A supplement to an act relating to assignees for the benefit of creditors and other trustees, approved June fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.”²⁹

The act of May 23, 1874 (P.L. 222, No. 144), entitled “An act to facilitate the transfer of stocks and loans.”³⁰

The act of April 28, 1876 (P.L. 50, No. 41), entitled “An act to validate sales and conveyances, under the decrees of courts of this commonwealth, by persons irregularly or improperly appointed or defectively qualified.”³¹

The act of May 13, 1876 (P.L. 172, No. 136), entitled “An act to confirm titles to real estate under allotments and sales had under orders of the orphans' courts in certain proceedings in partition.”³²

The act of February 16, 1877 (P.L. 3, No. 1), entitled “An act relating to the execution of trusts by corporations.”³³

The act of March 24, 1877 (P.L. 39, No. 36), entitled “An act to authorize the courts to decree private sales of real estate in certain cases.”³⁴

The act of May 22, 1878 (P.L. 83, No. 105), entitled “An act to provide for and to validate the execution and delivery of deeds and conveyances of real estate, in cases in which administrators, executors, guardians and trustees, may die or have died, between the time of sale and the time appointed for the payment of purchase money and delivery of the conveyance, and also in cases in which the administrator, executor, guardian or trustee may have received authority from the proper court to purchase real estate sold by him, either under the provisions of any last will and testament, or by the authority or under the direction of any court having jurisdiction to make a decree, directing such real estate to be sold.”³⁵

The act of May 8, 1889 (P.L. 123, No. 134), entitled “An act to authorize courts, having cognizance of trusts created by deed or will, to direct trust funds to be placed in the custody of trustees appointed by the courts of another State or territory of the United States, in cases where the person or persons beneficially interested in such trust have removed to such other State or territory of the United States.”³⁶

The act of April 22, 1891 (P.L. 25, No. 21), entitled “An act to authorize grants and conveyances by married women who are trustees and to confirm and validate certain grants and conveyances.”³⁷

The act of June 3, 1893 (P.L. 273, No. 242), entitled “An act to enable the surety of any trustee, committee, guardian, assignee, receiver, administrator, executor, or other trustee, or any person interested in the trust, to require the filing of statements exhibiting the manner of the investment of the trust funds, and providing for the removal of such trustee, committee, guardian, assignee, receiver, administrator, executor, or other trustee, by the court.”³⁸

The act of June 16, 1893 (P.L. 464, No. 334), entitled “An act to validate partitions of real estate in cases of testacy made in orphans' courts prior to the act of ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.”³⁹

The act of June 24, 1895 (P.L. 248, No. 158), entitled “An act to allow receivers, assignees, guardians, committees, trustees, executors and administrators to include in the lawful expenses of executing their trusts such reasonable sum paid a company, authorized under the laws of this State so to do, for becoming their surety as may be by court allowed, not exceeding one per centum per annum on the amount of such bonds.”⁴⁰

The act of April 4, 1901 (P.L. 66, No. 34), entitled “An act to validate private sales of real estate of decedents, heretofore made under authority of orphans' courts upon petition of executors or administrators for payment of debts.”⁴¹

The act of May 11, 1901 (P.L. 174, No. 141), entitled “An act to allow an executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, or trustee to institute an action at law, or other legal or equitable proceedings, against a co-executor, administrator, guardian, assignee or trustee, to recover or enforce any debt or obligation individually due the estate which he represents.”⁴²

The act of May 21, 1901 (P.L. 271, No. 178), entitled “An act to provide for the election of recorders of deeds and registers of wills in counties having a population of over one hundred and fifty thousand.”⁴³

The act of June 7, 1901 (P.L. 513, No. 249), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act to confer power on the several orphans' courts having jurisdiction of the accounts of executors and administrators to order and direct a sale, for the payment of the debts of such decedent, of any lands lying partly in two or more counties,’ approved the fourth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.”⁴⁴

The act of May 28, 1907 (P.L. 271, No. 207), entitled “An act to allow receivers, assignees, guardians, committees, trustees, executors, and administrators to include in the lawful expenses of executing their trusts such reasonable sum paid a company, authorized under the laws of this State so to do, for guaranteeing the payment of the principal and interest of mortgages or other securities in which they are required to invest the funds of their estate, not exceeding one-half of one per centum per annum on the principal of such mortgage or other securities.”⁴⁵

The act of June 1, 1907 (P.L. 384, No. 279), entitled “An act to provide for the discharge of sureties upon bonds of trustees, committees, guardians, assignees, receivers, executors, administrators, and other fiduciaries.”⁴⁶

The act of May 3, 1909 (P.L. 391, No. 220), entitled “An act to provide for the filing, auditing, and confirmation, in certain cases, of accounts of trustees and of committees of lunatics and of habitual drunkards.”⁴⁷

The act of April 27, 1911 (P.L. 101, No. 93), entitled “An act for the assignment of judges to districts other than their own, for the purpose of expediting business, with provision for their compensation.”⁴⁸

The act of July 21, 1913 (P.L. 871, No. 421), entitled “An act to validate private sales of real estate of decedents, heretofore made under the provisions of an act approved the ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, entitled ‘An act relating to orphans' court sales,’ which were not advertised in accordance with said act as amended.”⁴⁹

The act of April 2, 1915 (P.L. 43, No. 30), entitled “An act confirmatory of the conveyance of real estate.”⁵⁰

The act of April 10, 1915 (P.L. 112, No. 50), entitled “An act to validate all sales, public and private, and all mortgages, of real estate of decedents, heretofore made under authority of orphans' courts, upon petition of executors or administrators.”⁵¹

The act of April 23, 1915 (P.L. 177, No. 99), entitled “An act providing for the appointment and expenses of a Commission of three persons, learned in the law, to codify and revise the law of decedents' estates, and making an appropriation.”⁵²

The act of May 14, 1915 (P.L. 494, No. 209), entitled “An act to validate appraisements and titles made and effected to surviving husbands and wives by virtue of an act, entitled ‘An act to amend section one of an act, entitled “An act relating to the descent and distribution of the estates of intestates,” passed and approved April eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, defining and declaring the interest that shall descend to and vest in the surviving husband or wife of such intestate,’ approved the first day of April, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and nine.”⁵³

The act of May 28, 1915 (P.L. 633, No. 272) entitled “An act validating certain proceedings appraising and setting aside of property, under article two of section one of an act, entitled ‘An act to amend section one of an act entitled “An act relating to the descent and distribution of the estate of intestates,” passed and approved April eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; defining and declaring the interest that shall descend to and vest in the surviving husband or wife of such intestate,’ approved the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine.”⁵⁴

The act of April 5, 1917 (P.L. 45, No. 26), entitled “An act validating certain proceedings appraising and setting aside of property under article two of section one of an act, entitled ‘An act to amend section one of an act, entitled “An act relating to the descent and distribution of the estates of intestates,” passed and approved April eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; defining and declaring the interest that shall descend to and vest in the surviving husband or wife of such intestate,’ approved the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine.”⁵⁵

The act of April 5, 1917 (P.L. 46, No. 27), entitled “An act authorizing executors, administrators, guardians, and other trustees to invest trust funds in farm loan bonds issued by Federal Land Banks, under the provisions of the act of Congress of the United States of July seventeenth, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, its amendments, or supplements.”⁵⁶

The act of June 7, 1917 (P.L. 337, No. 187), known as the “Orphans' Court Partition Act of 1917.”⁵⁷

The act of June 7, 1917 (P.L. 415, No. 191), entitled “An act relating to the qualification, jurisdiction, powers, and duties of registers of wills, and regulating proceedings before said registers and the costs thereof, the effects of their acts, and appeals therefrom.”⁵⁸

The act of July 11, 1917 (P.L. 790, No. 297), entitled “An act authorizing trustees, guardians, and other fiduciaries to sell, assign, alter, modify, or supplement coal-mining leases, with the approval of the court having jurisdiction of their accounts.”⁵⁹

The act of July 11, 1917 (P.L. 803, No. 306), entitled “An act authorizing registers of wills to deputize the register of wills of another county to take the affidavit of witnesses to wills for the proof of such wills.”⁶⁰

The act of July 18, 1917 (P.L. 1067, No. 350), entitled “An act to validate appraisements and titles made and effected to surviving husbands and wives by virtue of an act, entitled ‘An act relating to the descent and distribution of the estates of intestates,’ approved the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred thirty-three, and the amendments thereto.”⁶¹

The act of July 19, 1917 (P.L. 1126, No. 384), entitled “An act to confirm titles to real estate, under allotments and sales had under orders of the orphans' courts in proceedings in partition.”⁶²

The act of June 4, 1919 (P.L. 372, No. 183), entitled “An act to establish a separate orphans' court in and for the county of Cambria.”⁶³

The act of July 7, 1919 (P.L. 726, No. 291), entitled “An act ratifying and confirming the appointment of guardians and the sales of real estate of feeble-minded persons where the orphans' court of the proper county, since the twenty-eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and seven, have appointed guardians of the estates of feeble-minded persons, and decreed or approved the sales of the real estate of such persons, with like effect as if said proceedings, decrees of sale, or approvals had been taken in the court of common pleas of the proper county.”⁶⁴

The act of July 8, 1919 (P.L. 736, No. 299), entitled “An act to establish a separate orphans' court in and for the county of Washington.”⁶⁵

The act of July 10, 1919 (P.L. 886, No. 350), entitled “An act to bar the rights of husbands and wives in the personal estate of wives or husbands who shall have died intestate prior to May third, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, where such surviving husbands one thousand have, for one year or upwards previous to such death, willfully and maliciously deserted such deceased wife or husband, unless an action for the recovery thereof be instituted within one year after the approval hereof.”⁶⁶

The act of April 11, 1921 (P.L. 121, No. 71), entitled “An act to establish a separate orphans' court in and for the county of Delaware.”⁶⁷

The act of May 24, 1921 (P.L. 1075, No. 397), entitled “An act to establish a separate orphans' court in and for the county of Erie.”⁶⁸

The act of June 27, 1923 (P.L. 846, No. 326), entitled “An act providing a means whereby real estate devised upon a trust to divide it among other persons, and the trustee has died without performing the trust, may be divided amicably by the interested persons with the approval of the orphans' court and the legal title be vested in them by judicial decree.”⁶⁹

The act of March 29, 1927 (P.L. 72, No. 51), entitled “An act confirmatory of guardians' sales of real estate.”⁷⁰

The act of April 4, 1929 (P.L. 149, No. 150), entitled “An act authorizing guardians of minors to expend parts of the income of said minors in life insurance policies, with leave of the orphans' court, and stipulating the rights of such minors in regard thereto upon becoming of age.”⁷¹

The act of March 11, 1933 (P.L. 11, No. 8), entitled “An act ratifying and confirming sales of real estate of feeble-minded persons, where the orphans' court of the proper county decreed or approved the sales of the real estate of such persons, with like effect as if said proceedings and sales had been taken in the court of common pleas of the proper county.”⁷²

The act of April 26, 1933 (P.L. 88, No. 56), entitled “An act empowering a court in which a suit for the recovery of damages for personal injuries to a minor is pending to make an order authorizing a compromise or settlement to be made for such minor; and empowering a court in which a judgment is obtained for such minor, or by which a compromise or settlement is approved, to fix counsel fees and other expenses incident to said suit and to award the balance to a duly appointed guardian of such minor, and limiting the liability of said guardian to the sum of money thus coming into his hands.”⁷³

The act of July 15, 1935 (P.L. 1025, No. 338), entitled “An act providing that investment in shares of Federal Savings and Loan Associations or shares of other institutions, insured under the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, shall be legal for trust funds.”⁷⁴

The act of May 26, 1939 (P.L. 230, No. 132), entitled “An act to validate private sales of real estate of decedents heretofore made under authority of orphans' courts upon petition of executors or administrators for payment of debts.”⁷⁵

The act June 24, 1939 (P.L. 871, No. 374), entitled “An act defining the liability of persons signing instruments in writing in a fiduciary capacity, regulating actions on such instruments and execution on judgments obtained in such actions, and exception certain actions from the provisions of said act.”⁷⁶

The act of April 18, 1945 (P.L. 253, No. 113), entitled “An act providing for the appointment of guardians in inter vivos deeds, or gifts, or under insurance, or annuity policies.”⁷⁷

The act of January 9, 1952 (P.L. 1861, No. 500), entitled “An act to establish a separate orphans' court in and for the county of Beaver.”⁷⁸

The act of June 3, 1953 (P.L. 278, No. 52), entitled “An act validating legal instruments executed by fiduciaries without setting forth their fiduciary capacity.”⁷⁹

The act of July 29, 1953 (P.L. 968, No. 233), entitled “An act to establish a separate orphans' court in and for the County of Chester.”⁸⁰

The act of February 28, 1956 (P.L. 1154, No. 359), known as the “Incompetents' Estates Act of 1955.”⁸¹

The act of August 8, 1961 (P.L. 969, No. 433), entitled “An act fixing the salary of the register of wills of Philadelphia.”⁸²

The act of August 6, 1963 (P.L. 508, No. 265), entitled “An act establishing a separate orphans' court in and for the County of Bucks.”⁸³

The act of August 14, 1963 (P.L. 842, No. 411), entitled “An act validating certain conveyances of real estate by executors of the estates of decedents.”⁸⁴

The act of June 16, 1972 (P.L. 426, No. 124), entitled “An act amending the act of April 18, 1949 (P.L. 512, No. 121), entitled ‘An act relating to the administration and distribution of decedents' estates, trust estates, minors' estates and absentees' estates, both as to real and personal property, and the procedure relating thereto; including the disposition of such estates or portions thereof and the determination of title thereto without the appointment of a fiduciary in certain cases; the appointment, bond, removal and discharge of fiduciaries of such estates, their powers, duties and liabilities; the rights of persons dealing with such fiduciaries, and the rights of persons claiming an interest in such estates or in property distributed therefrom whether as claimants or distributees, and containing provisions concerning guardians of the person of minors, the powers, duties and liabilities of sureties and of foreign fiduciaries, the abatement, survival and control of actions and rights of action, and the presumption of death; and also generally dealing with the jurisdiction, powers and procedure of the orphans' court and of the register of wills in all matters relating to fiduciaries,’ reducing certain age requirements.”⁸⁵

The act of June 16, 1972 (P.L. 453, No. 140), entitled “An act amending the act of April 24, 1947 (P.L. 89, No. 38), entitled ‘An act relating to the form, execution, revocation, operation, and interpretation of wills; to nuncupative wills; to the appointment of testamentary guardians; to elections to take under or against wills and the procedure in reference thereto,’ reducing certain age requirements.”⁸⁶

The act of December 6, 1972 (P.L. 1337, No. 288), entitled “An act amending the act of December 16, 1969 (P.L. 366, No. 161), entitled ‘An act authorizing the gift of all or part of a human body after death for specified purposes,’ authorizing the enucleating of eyes by funeral directors.”⁸⁷

The act of December 28, 1972 (P.L. 1666, No. 356), entitled “An act relating to gifts for charitable and religious purposes taking effect on the death of the donor and promises to give property for charitable and religious purposes; providing for their validity and enforceability if made within thirty days of the death of the donor or promisor.”⁸⁸