2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 25 - Wills
2517 - Rule in Shelley's case and doctrine of worthier title.

     § 2517.  Rule in Shelley's case and doctrine of worthier title.
        (a)  Rule in Shelley's case.--The rule in Shelley's case and
     its corollaries shall not be applied, and a devise or bequest
     directly or in trust which shall express an intent to create an
     estate for life with remainder to the life tenant's heirs or the
     heirs of his body or his issue or his next of kin or persons
     described by words of similar import shall not operate to give
     such life tenant an estate in fee in real estate or an absolute
     estate in personalty.
        (b)  Doctrine of worthier title.--The doctrine of worthier
     title shall not be applied as a rule of law or as a rule of
     construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the
     beneficiaries of a disposition as the transferor's heirs, heirs
     at law, next of kin, distributees, relatives or family or
     language of similar import shall not create or presumptively
     create a reversionary interest in the transferor.
     (Dec. 1, 1994, P.L.655, No.102, eff. 60 days)

        1994 Amendment.  Section 10 of Act 102 provided that the
     amendment of section 2517 shall apply to wills executed, trusts
     created and conveyances made before, on or after the effective
     date of Act 102.