New Jersey Statutes Appendix - Former Title 3A Administration of Estates Decedents and Others 3A § 16-8

When real estate is devised by a will to the executors therein named, or any of them, to be sold, or is thereby ordered to be sold by the executors therein named, or any of them, and 1 or more of such executors shall fail to qualify, or having entered upon the duties of office, shall have died, resigned, or removed out of the state and refused to act, or shall have been discharged or removed from office by a court of competent jurisdiction, the trusts in the will shall vest in the other executor or executors named in the will who have proved the will, and in the survivor or survivors of them, unless it is otherwise expressed in the will. Such acting or surviving executor or executors may sell and convey the real estate of the testator, in the same manner, to all intents and purposes, as if all had been living or had acted and joined in the sale.