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(C)      ISSUE OF A PARENT, GRANDPARENT, OR
GREAT-GRANDPARENT OF THE DECEDENT.

IN THE CASE OF ISSUE OF A PARENT, GRANDPARENT, OR
GREAT-GRANDPARENT OF THE DECEDENT, THE PROPERTY SHALL BE
DIVIDED INTO AS MANY EQUAL SHARES AS THERE ARE LINEAL
DESCENDANTS OF EITHER, OR OF BOTH, OF THE PAIR OF
PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, OR GREAT-GRANDPARENTS, AS THE CASE
MAY BE, OF THE NEAREST DEGREE OF RELATIONSHIP TO THE
DECEDENT OF WHOM ANY SURVIVED THE DECEDENT AND WHO DID SO
SURVIVE, AND LINEAL DESCENDANTS OF THE SAME DEGREE MHO
DID NOT SURVIVE THE DECEDENT BUT OF WHOM ISSUE DID
SURVIVE THE DECEDENT. EACH LINEAL DESCENDANT OF THE
NEAREST DEGREE SURVIVING THE DECEDENT SHALL RECEIVE ONE
SHARE AND THE ISSUE OF EACH DECEASED LINEAL DESCENDANT OF
THAT DEGREE WHO LEFT ISSUE SURVIVING THE DECEDENT SHALL
RECEIVE ONE SHARE APPORTIONED IN THE MANNER OF
REPRESENTATION SET FORTH FOR ISSUE OF THE DECEDENT IN
SUBSECTION (£).

(D)   WILLS.

UNLESS A CONTRARY INTENTION EXPRESSLY APPEARS, WHEN
A MILL PROVIDES THAT UPON THE OCCURRENCE OF AN EVENT
DISTRIBUTION SHALL BE MADE BY REPRESENTATION OR PER
STIRPES, THE ESTATE SHALL BE DIVIDED INTO AS MANY EQUAL
SHARES AS THERE ARE, WITH RESPECT TO THE PARTICULAR
LEGACY INVOLVED, (1) LEGATEES AND (2) PERSONS WHO WOULD
HAVE BEEN LEGATEES HAD THEY SURVIVED UNTIL THE OCCURRENCE
OF THE EVENT AND OF WHOM ISSUE DID SURVIVE THE OCCURRENCE
OF THE EVENT. EACH LEGATEE SHALL RECEIVE ONE SHARE AND
THE SHARE OF EACH DECEASED LEGATEE SHALL BE DIVIDED AMONG
HIS ISSUE IN THE SAME MANNER.

REVISOR'S NOTE; This section presently appears as
Art. 93, § 1-210. It is subdivided into two
additional subsections. A slight change is
made in language in order to make this
division.

SUBTITLE 3. PROPERTY SUBJECT TO ARTICLE.
1-301. DEVOLUTION AT DEATH.

ALL PROPERTY OF A DECEDENT SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE
ESTATES OF DECEDENTS LAW, AND UPON HIS DEATH SHALL PASS
DIRECTLY TO THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE, WHO SHALL HOLD
THE LEGAL TITLE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND DISTRIBUTION,
WITHOUT ANY DISTINCTION, PREFERENCE, OR PRIORITY AS
BETWEEN REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section presently appears as
Art. 93, § 1—301. The only change is in
style.