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be legally destroyed or barred, descend according to the course of
descent heretofore used and established; nor shalll anything herein,
be taken or construed to interfere with or alter any limitation,
grant, or gift, by devise, conveyance or otherwise, to special or
particular heirs, in a different course of descent from what is by
this article specified; but in such cases the descent shall be ac-
cording to the limitation or form of the gift, devise or grant, until
the entail shall be legally barred or destroyed; nor shall this
article, or anything therein contained, be taken or construed to
bar or affect any widow's right of dower.

Mayson's Lessee v. Sexton, 1 H. & McH 275. Nicholson v. Helmsley, 3 H. &.
McH.' 409. Smith v. Smith, 2 H. & J 314. Newton v. Griffith, 1 H. & G. 112.
Hill's Lessee v. Hill, 5 G. & J. 87. Hatton v. Weems, 12 G. & J. 84. Chew v.
Chew, 1 Md. 163. Simpers v. Simpers, 15 Md 160.

P. G. L., (1860,) art 47, sec. 29. 1820, ch. 191, sec. 7.
29 If any man shall have a child or children by any woman
whom he shall afterwards marry, such child or children, if ac-
knowledged by the man, shall, in virtue of such marriage and
acknowledgment, be hereby legitimated and capable in law to
inherit and transmit inheritance as if born in wedlock.

Pratt v. Flamer, 5 H. & J. 10. Bevans e Taylor, 7 H & J. 1. Campbell's
Case, 2 Bl. 236. Helms v. Franciscus, 2 Bl 544. Southgate v. Arman, 31 Md,
116. Hawbecker v. Hawbecker. 43 Md. 516.

Ibid. sec. 30. 1825, ch. 156. 1868, ch. 199.

30. The illegitimate child or children of any female, and the
issue of any such illegitimate child or children shall be capable in
law to take and inherit both real and personal estate from their
mother, or from each other, or from the descendants of each
other, as the case may be; and where such illegitimate child or
children shall die, leaving no descendants, or brothers or sisters,

or the descendants of such brothers and sisters, then and in that
case, the mother of such illegitimate child or children, if living,
shall inherit both real and personal estate from such illegitimate
child or children; and if the mother be dead, then and in that
case, the heirs at law of the mother shall inherit the real and
personal estate of such illegitimate child or children in like
manner as if such illegitimate child or children had been born in
lawful wedlock.

Miller v. Stewart, 8 Gill, 129. Hawbecker v. Hawbecker, 43 Md. 516. Estep
v. Mackey, 52 Md 599.