New Jersey Statutes Appendix - Former Title 3A Administration of Estates Decedents and Others 3A § 16-9

When a will authorizes real estate therein mentioned to be sold and fails to name an executor and letters of administration with the will annexed or of substitutionary administration with the will annexed are granted thereon, a deed or conveyance of such real estate, made and delivered by the administrator or administrators with the will annexed or the substituted administrator or administrators with the will annexed or their survivor or survivors pursuant to a power or direction in the will, shall be as valid as if made and delivered by any executor or executors who might have been named in such will.