The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-19
CHAPTER ss-s. Fl. NO. 4s.

AN ACT to amend section "a of an act
entitled An. act to establish a probate
code, approved April %, 1889, being
chapter 46, General Laws of 1889, re-
lating to the descent of property.
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature Of the
State of Minnesota:
Section 1. Section GA of chapter 46 Of
General Laws of 1889 is hereby amended
so that such section shall hereafter read
as follows:
Such surviving husband or wife shall
also be entitled to and shall hold in fee
SIMPLE or by such inferior tenure as the
deceased was at any time during cover
equal undivided one-third of all other
lands of which the deceased was at any
Tune during coverture seized or possessed
except such lands as have been Invested
by execution sale, or sale under q decree
OIL court OF competent jurisdiction. or by
deed of assignment for benefit Of credit
ors, or by insolvency or bankruptcy pro
ceed1ngs, and subject to all Judgment
hens) Tree from any testamentary or 9TH
ei disposition thereof to which such sur
y1Vor shall not have assented in writing,
the other real estate to the payment
! of such debts of the deceased as
are not paid from the personal estate
| The residue of said other lands or If
there be no surviving husband or wife,
OF such inteState, then the whole Of said
otner lands shall descend, subject to the
lowing:
L. In equal shares to his children, and
to the lawful issue of any deceased child,
by right of representation
2. If there be no child and no lawful
Issue OF any deceased child of the intes-
tate living at his DEATH and the intestate
leaves a surviving husband or wife, then
the whole of his or her estate shall de-
scend to such survivor
8. If the interstate leaves no issue nor
husband nor wife, his estate shall descend
to his father.
4. If the intestate leave no issue. nor
husband nor wife nor father, his estate
shall descend to his mother.
Q: Ii the interstate leave no issue, nor
wife nor husband nor father nor mother.
MS estate shall descend in equal shares
70 ms prothers and sisters, and to the
lawful issue of any deceased brother or
sister by right of representation
g.. If the intestate leave no Issue. and
no husband or wife, and no father, moth
er. brother or sister: his estate shall de-
sceud TO his next of kin, in equal degree !:
excepting that when there are two or
more collateral kindred in equal degree,
put claiming through different ancestors,
those who claim through the nearest an
cestor shall be preferred to those claiming
through an ancestor more remote
T. IL any person dies leaving several
children, or leaving one child and the is
sue OF one Or more other children, and
any sucn surviving child dies under age,
ana not having been married, all the
estate that came to the deceased child
py inheritance from such deceased parent
snall descend In equal share to the other
| chlldren Of the same parent, and to the
| issue of any such other children, who
! nave died, by right of representation.
g. If at the death of such child. who
d!es under age, and not having been mar
RED, all the other children of his said pa
rent are also dead, and any of them has
leIt issue, the estate that came to said
chlld by inheritance from his said parent
shali descend to all the issue of other
ch1Idren of the same parent; and If all
the SAID Issue are in the same degree of
! kindred to said child, they shall have the
same estate equally; otherwise, they shall
take according to the right of representa-
8 If the interstate leaves no issue. nor
| husband or wife, or kindred, his estate
| shall escheat to the state
Sec. = This act shall take effect and
| Approved March II 1901