1358 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.

he no father, a mother shall have an equal share with the brothers
and sisters of the deceased, and their children and descendants.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 93, sec. 131 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 11, sec. 11.

130. 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 distinction
between the whole and half-blood.

Seekamp's Admr. v Hammer, 2 H. & G. 9. McComas v. Amos, 29 Md. 120.
Keller v. Hooper, 64 Md, 74

Ibid. sec. 132. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 11, sec. 12.

131. 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.

Ibid sec. 133 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 11, sec 13.

132. If any person entitled to distribution shall die before the
same shall be made, his or her share shall go to his or her rep-
resentatives.

Ibid sec. 134. 1798, ch 101, sub-ch. 11, sec. 14.

133. Posthumous children of intestates shall take in the same
manner as if they had been born before the decease of the intes-
tate, but no other posthumous relation shall be considered as

entitled to distribution in his or her own right.

Shriver v. State, 65 Md. 278.

Ibid, sec 135. 1825, ch. 156.

134. The illegitimate child or children of any female, and the
issue of any such illegitimate child or children, shall be capable
to take real or personal estate from their mother, or from each
other, or from the descendants of each other, in like manner as if
born in lawful wedlock.

Hawbecker v. Hawbecker, 43 Md. 516.

Ibid. sec. 186. 1719, ch. 14. 1729, ch. 24, secs. 17-20. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 11,
sec. 15. 1802, ch. 101, sec. 11. 1876, ch. 295.

135. If there be no widow or relations of the intestate within
the fifth degree, which shall be reckoned by counting down from