330 INHERITANCE. [ART. 47.

ARTICLE XLVII.
Inheritance.

DESCENTS.

SEC. 1. If any person seized of an estate in lands, tenements
or hereditaments lying in this State, in fee simple, or fee simple
conditional, or of an estate in fee tail general, shall die intestate
thereof, such lands, tenements or hereditaments shall descend in
fee simple to the kindred male and female of such person in the
following order, to wit:

2. First, to the child or children and their descendants, if any,
equally.

3. If no child or descendant, and the estate descended to the
intestate on the part of the father, then to the father.

4. If no father living, then to the brothers and sisters of
the intestate of the blood of the father, and their descendants
equally.

5. If no brother or sister as aforesaid, or descendant from such
brother or sister, then to the grandfather, on the part of the
father.

6. If no such grandfather living, then to the descendants of
such grandfather and their descendants, in equal degree equally.

7. If no descendant of such grandfather, then to the father of
such grandfather, and if none such living, then to the descendants
of the father of such grandfather in equal degree, and so on,
passing to the next lineal male paternal ancestor, and if none
such, to his descendants in equal degree without end.

8. If no paternal ancestor or descendant from such ancestor,
then to the mother of the intestate.

9. If no mother living, to her descendants in equal degree
equally.

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