Section 903. Necessary defendants  


Latest version.
  • Each of the following persons shall be
      made a party to the action:
        1. Every person having an undivided share, in possession or otherwise,
      in the property, as tenant in fee, for  life,  by  the  curtesy  or  for
      years;
        2. Every person entitled to the reversion, remainder or inheritance of
      an  undivided  share,  after  the  determination  of a particular estate
      therein;
        3. Every person who, by any contingency, is or may become entitled  to
      a  beneficial  interest  in an undivided share in the property, provided
      that where a future estate or interest is limited in any contingency  to
      the  persons  who  shall compose a certain class upon the happening of a
      future event, it shall be sufficient to make parties to the  action  the
      persons  who would have been entitled to such estate or interest if such
      event had happened immediately before the commencement of the action;
        4. Every person having an inchoate right  of  dower  in  an  undivided
      share in the property;
        5.  Every  person having a right of dower in the property, or any part
      thereof, which has not been admeasured; and
        6. An executor or administrator,  where  letters  testamentary  or  of
      administration  have been issued on the estate of the decedent from whom
      the plaintiff's title to the real property is derived, and the action is
      brought within eighteen months after such letters were issued; or  where
      the  person  of  whose  estate  the  executor  or administrator has been
      appointed should, if living, be a party to the action. If no executor or
      administrator has been appointed for the estate of such a  person,  that
      fact must be stated in the complaint.