91-1-1. What law to govern.
All personal property situated in this state shall descend and be distributed
according to the laws of this state regulating the descent and distribution of
such property, regardless of all marital rights which may have accrued in other
states, and notwithstanding the domicile of the deceased may have been in
another state, and whether the heirs or persons entitled to distribution be in
this state or not. The widow of such deceased person shall take her share in the
personal estate according to the laws of this state.
91-1-3. Descent of land.
When any person shall die seized of any estate of inheritance in lands,
tenements, and hereditaments not devised, the same shall descend to his or her
children, and their descendants, in equal parts, the descendants of the deceased
child or grandchild to take the share of the deceased parent in equal parts
among them. When there shall not be a child or children of the intestate nor
descendants of such children, then to the brothers and sisters and father and
mother of the intestate and the descendants of such brothers and sisters in
equal parts, the descendants of a sister or brother of the intestate to have in
equal parts among them their deceased parent's share. If there shall not be a
child or children of the intestate, or descendants of such children, or brothers
or sisters, or descendants of them, or father or mother, then such estate shall
descend, in equal parts, to the grandparents and uncles and aunts, if any there
be; otherwise, such estate shall descend in equal parts to the next of kin of
the intestate in equal degree, computing by the rules of the civil law. There
shall not be any representation among collaterals, except among the descendants
of the brothers and sisters of the intestate.
91-1-5. Half-bloods.
There shall not be, in any case, a distinction between the kindred of the whole
and half-blood, except that the kindred of the whole-blood, in equal degree,
shall be preferred to the kindred of the half-blood in the same degree.
91-1-7. Descent of property as between husband and wife.
If a husband die intestate and do not leave children or descendants of children,
his widow shall be entitled to his entire estate, real and personal, in fee
simple, after payment of his debts; but where the deceased husband shall leave a
child or children by that or a former marriage, or descendants of such child or
children, his widow shall have a child's part of his estate, in either case in
fee simple. If a married woman die owning any real or personal estate not
disposed of, it shall descend to her husband and her children or their
descendants if she have any surviving her, either by a former husband or by the
surviving husband, in equal parts, according to the rules of descent. If she
have children and there also be descendants of other children who have died
before the mother, the descendants shall inherit the share to which the parent
would have been entitled if living, as coheirs with the surviving children. If
she have no children or descendants of them, then the husband shall inherit all
of her property.
91-1-11. Personal estate to descend as real estate.
When any person shall die possessed of goods and chattels or personal estate not
bequeathed, the same shall descend to and be distributed among his or her heirs
in the same manner that real estate not devised descends.
91-1-13. Estate of testator not disposed of by will to descend.
All estate, real and personal, not devised or bequeathed in the last will and
testament of any person shall descend and be distributed in the same manner as
the estate of an intestate; and the executor or administrator shall administer
the same accordingly.
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