2009 Massachusetts Code
PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
TITLE I TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY
CHAPTER 184 GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO REAL PROPERTY
Section 33A Doctrine of worthier title; testamentary conveyances or devises; abolition
[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 3. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]
Section 33A. When any interest in real or personal property is limited, mediately or immediately, in an otherwise effective testamentary conveyance or devise, in form or in effect, to the heirs or next of kin of the conveyor, or to a person or persons who on the death of the conveyor are some or all of his heirs or next of kin, such conveyees or devisees acquire the interest that the conveyance or devise purports to create by purchase and not by descent.
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