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items of property to secure equality of division, esp. as practised is case in which advancements of an intestate's property must be made upto estate by a contribution or by an accounting, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Intestates Estates Act, 1890 (English)
Intestates Estates Act, 1890 (English) (53 & 54 Vict. c. 29), repealed and not re-enacted by the A.E. Act,
Escheat
the estate was originally derived, taking it as ultimus h'res upon the failure, natural or legal, of the intestate tenant's family. Escheat to the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Duke of Cornwall and to mesne lords
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Distribution, Statute of
(see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, enacts that the surplusage of intestates' personal estate (except of femes covert, the administration and enjoyment of whose estates belonged, at Common Law, to
succession
which a person becomes entitled to the property or property interest of a deceased person and esp. an intestate : the transmission of the estate of a decedent to his or her heirs, legatees, or devisees ;also
Administrator
executor. [Indian Succession Act (39 of 1925) s. 2(a)] --he to whom the property of a person dying intestate, or without executors appointed, accepting, or surviving, is committed by the Probate Court (now the Probate, Divorce and
intestacy
intestacy pl: -cies 1 : the state of dying intestate : an intestate state or condition [the invalidation of the will resulted in her ] 2 : intestate
Capita, Per
jure representationis (per stripes), in the right of another person, as if the next of kin be the intestate's three children, A., B., and C.; here the intestate's personalty is divided into three equal portions, and distributed
Children
INFANTS; YOUNG PERSON; and Chitty's Statutes. Tit. 'Infants and Children.' The expression 'children' in the case of an intestate male and the expression 'thavazhee' in the case of an intestate female shall, for the purpose of Part
Coparceners or parceners
this subject was of two kinds:-(1) Descent by the common law, which took place where an ancestor died intestate, leaving two or more females as his co-heiresses; these, according to the canon of real property inheritance, all
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