Personalty first chargeable for debts.
Section 727
SEC. 727. Personalty first chargeable for debts. — The personal estate of a deceased person shall be first chargeable with the payment of debts and expenses; and if the personal estate is not sufficient for that purpose, the whole of the real estate, or so much thereof as is necessary, may be sold for that purpose by the executor or administrator, after obtaining license therefor; and the executor or administrator shall have the right to the possession of the real as well as personal estate of the deceased, so long as is necessary for that purpose.