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2020 Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 2. General Provisions
Subchapter I. Tenets and Principles
§ 205 Devise of real estate without limitation.
Universal Citation: 12 DE Code § 205. (2020)
§ 205. Devise of real estate without limitation.
A devise of real estate, without words of limitation, shall be construed to pass the fee simple, or other whole estate, or interest, which the testator could lawfully devise in such real estate, unless a contrary intention appears by the will.
Code 1852, § 1667; Code 1915, § 3243; Code 1935, § 3707; 12 Del. C. 1953, § 106; 59 Del. Laws, c. 384, § 1;
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