2013 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 33 - Probate practice and procedure
Chapter 33-1 - Rules of Descent
Section 33-1-3 - Descent when no paternal or maternal kindred survive.
§ 33-1-3 Descent when no paternal or maternal kindred survive. – When in this chapter the inheritance is directed to go by moieties to the paternal and maternal kindred, if there are no such kindred on the one part, the whole shall go to the other part; and if there are no kindred either on the one part or the other the whole shall go to the husband or wife of the intestate, and if the husband or wife is dead, it shall go to his or her kindred in the like course as if such husband or wife had survived the intestate and then died entitled to the estate.
History of Section.
(C.P.A. 1905, § 936; G.L. 1909, ch. 316, § 4; P.L. 1919, ch. 1787, § 7; G.L. 1923, ch. 367, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 567, § 4; P.L. 1944, ch. 1421, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 33-1-3.)
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