Scobie's Canadian Almanac, and Repository of Useful Knowledge, Volume 5Hugh Scobie, 1852 - Almanacs, Canadian |
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Page 53 - The degrees of kindred shall be computed according to the rule of the civil law ; and kindred of the half blood shall inherit equally with those of the whole blood, in the same degree, unless the inheritance came to the intestate by descent, devise or gift of some one of his ancestors, in which case all those who are not of the blood of such ancestor shall be excluded from such inheritance.
Page 52 - ... have died; so that each child who shall be living, shall inherit such share as would have descended to him, if all the children of the intestate who shall have died leaving issue, had been living; and so that the descendants of each child who shall be dead, shall inherit the share, which their parent would have received if living.
Page 53 - That in all cases not provided for by the preceding sections, where the inheritance shall have come to the intestate on the part of his mother, the same, instead of descending to the brothers and sisters of the intestate's...
Page 53 - AD 1872. sisters of the intestate's father and their descendants, as prescribed — in the preceding tenth section, shall descend to the brothers and sisters of the intestate's mother, and to their descendants, as directed in the last preceding section ; and if there be no such brothers and sisters, or descendants of them, then such inheritance shall descend to the brothers and sisters, and their descendants, of the intestate's father, as before prescribed.
Page 53 - Inheritance shall descend to the mother for life, and the reversion to such brothers and sisters of the intestate as may be living, and the descendants of such as may be dead, according to the same law of Inheritance hereinafter provided. If the intestate in such case leave no brother or sister or descendant thereof, the inheritance shall descend to the mother in fee.
Page 53 - Act, he shall take and hold the inheritance solely; and wherever an inheritance, or a share of an inheritance, shall descend to several persons under such provisions, they shall take as tenants in common, in proportion to their respective rights.
Page 53 - ... the amount of the share which such child would be entitled to receive of the estate of the deceased, such child and his descendants shall not share in the estate of the intestate...
Page 53 - ... 1. To the brothers and sisters of the father of the intestate in equal shares, if all be living. 2. If any be living, and any shall have died, leaving issue, to such brothers and sisters as shall be living and to the descendants of such as shall have died.
Page 53 - ... if all the brothers and sisters of the intestate be living, the whole surplus shall be distributed to them; if any of them be living and any be dead, to the brothers and sisters living, and the descendants in whatever degree of those dead; so that...
Page 53 - If the inheritance has not come to the intestate on the part of either father or mother, it shall descend to the brothers and sisters both of the father and mother of the intestate, and their descendants in the same manner. In all cases mentioned in this section the inheritance shall descend to the brothers and sisters of the...