law: Partition Act, 1893
  2. Power of Court to order sale instead of division in
  
  partition suits
  Whenever in any suit for partition in which, if instituted prior
  
  to the commencement of this Act, a decree for partition might have been made,
  
  it appears to the Court that, by reason of the nature of the property to which
  
  the suit relates, or of the number of the shareholders therein, or of any other
  
  special circumstance, a division of the property cannot reasonably or
  
  conveniently be made, and that a sale of the property and distribution of the
  
  proceeds would be more beneficial for all the shareholders, the Court may, if
  
  it thinks fit, on the request of any of such shareholders interested
  
  individually or collectively to the extent of one moiety or upwards, direct a
  
  sale of the property and a distribution of the proceeds.