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and children, and such as legally represent
them; and when distant relations are entitled,
from the want of issue of the intestate, then recourse
is had to the table of descent, so far as to
find out by the computation of the civil law,
the person described by the statute, to wit, the
next of kin to the intestate.
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I shall endeavour, by stating a few cases, of
the most frequent occurrence, to elucidate the
general tendency of the rules, which obtain in
the distribution of personal estates.
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EXAMPLES.
When a man dies intestate (that is, without
a will) leaving
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A widow, only?
Then such widow takes the whole residue of
the personal estate, by virtue of the act of assembly
in 1719 chap. 14. § 4. Where it is enacted
" That in case there be a widow, no collaterals
" shall be admitted, other than those directed
" by an act of assembly of this province,
" entitled, an act for the better administration of
" justice in testamentary affairs; but such widow
" shall have the whole residue of such estate."
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