646 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.

jn the place of his or their deceased ancestor; Provided, that if
any child or descendant shall have been advanced by the intes-
tate by settlement, or portion, the same shall be reckoned in the
surplus; and if it be equal or superior to a share, such child or
descendant shall be excluded, but the widow shall have no ad-
vantage by bringing such advancement into reckoning; and
maintenance or education, or money given without a view to a
portion or settlement in life, shall not be deemed advancement;
and in all cases, those in equal degree claiming in the place of
an ancestor, shall take equal shares.

127. If there be a father, and no child or descendant, the
father shall have the whole.

128. If there be a brother or sister, or child or descendant of
a brother or sister, and no child, descendant or father of the in-
testate, the said brother, sister, or child or descendant of a
brother or sister, shall have the whole.

129. Every brother and sister of the intestate shall be entitled
to an equal share, and thp child or children of a brother or sister
of the intestate shall stand in the place of such brother or sister.

130. If the intestate leave a mother, and no child, descendant,
father, brother, sister or child, or descendant of a brother or .
sister, the mother shall be entitled to the whole; and in case
there be no father, a mother shall have an equal share with the
brothers and sisters of the deceased, and their children and

descendants.

131. After children, descendants, father, mother, brothers and
sisters of the deceased, and their descendants, all collateral rela-
tions in equal degree shall take, and no representation amongst
such collaterals shall be allowed; and there shall be no distinc-
tion between the whole and half blood.

132. If there be no collaterals, a grandfather may take, and
if there be two grandfathers, they shall take alike, and a grand-
mother, in case of the death of her husband the grandfather,
shall take as he might have done.

133. If any person entitled to distribution shall die before the
same shall be made, his or her share shall go to his or her
representatives.