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Hereditaments

in land [Re Gosselin, (1906) 1 Ch 120]. Any property that can be inherited; anything that passes by intestacy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 730. The enumeration of incorporeal hereditaments in Hale's Analysis (p. 48) is

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heir

who succeeds to the estate of a person by will or esp. by operation of law see also intestacy, unworthy compare ancestor, devisee, legatee, next of kin, successor apparent heir : heir apparent in this entry beneficiary

Adoption

rights, and are required to acknowledge the fact. In regard to property, however, under any disposition or an intestacy the child retains his status as a child of his or her own parents and does not acquire

Age

female of 17, see MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT, 1 Co. Litt. 78; Bro. Abr, 'Age.' For an infant's rights upon intestacy. See INTESTACY. See also EDUCATION; CHILDREN. The (English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5,

Apportionment

otherwise. At Common Law rent was apportionable upon severance by act of law, e.g., upon the devolution on intestacy of freeholds, and leaseholds which were comprised in one lease, or upon partition, or upon eviction from part

Heir

and under heirs, the heirs of heirs are comprehended in infinitum. A person who, under the laws of intestacy, is entitled to receive an intestate decedents property, esp. real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 727.

Marriage

(16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), recognize them as legitimate so as to inherit realty upon an intestacy, Birtwhisle v. Vardill, (1840) 7 Cl &Fin 895. As to persons legitimated on or after 15th December, 1926,

Husband and wife

s. 467), provides that a husband and wife shall, for all purposes of distribution and division in an intestacy under that s., be treated as two persons. Under s. 39, ibid., and the 6th sched. To that

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