69—Power to order partition or sale instead of partition
(1) On any application
for partition the court may order a partition of the said land or other
property, and may give all necessary or proper consequential directions.
(2) On any such
application if it appears to the court that, by reason of the nature of the
property, or of the number of the parties interested or presumptively
interested therein, or of the absence or disability of some of those parties,
or of any other circumstance, a sale of the property and a distribution of the
proceeds would be more beneficial for the parties interested than a division
of the property between or among them, the court may, if it thinks fit, on the
request of any of the parties interested, and notwithstanding the absence,
dissent or disability of any others of them, direct a sale of the property
accordingly, and may give all necessary or proper consequential directions.