Samra v. Yuan

*9351. The basic contention underlying the defendant’s argument on the standing issue is that the one-year time limit for obtaining a license to sell the premises found in G. L. c. 202, § 20, has expired.3 The judge seems to have relied on language of several older cases starting with Hooker v. Porter, 271 Mass. 441, 446 (1930), and ending with Roper v. Murphy, 317 Mass. 176, 178 (1944), which suggest that a legal representative of an estate, at least before obtaining such a license, has no power to sell or take possession. Moran v. Manning, 306 Mass. 404, 409 (1940).

Where the will authorizes the…