Fish v. Berzel’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. ““CLAUSE VIII “and the parties of the second part further agree, that if said child be not returned to the party of the first part when she attains the age of eighteen years, or shall not have been returned before she shall have attained such age and this agreement of indenture be duly cancelled and annulled by the consent of borth [sic] parties, or if said child be not legally adopted by said parties of the second part before said child attain such age, then the parties of the second part in consideration of this indenture and of being permitted by the party of the first part to keep such child shall be deemed to have elected to keep, treat and maintain said child as if it were their own natural and legitimate child. And the parties of the second part further agree that if the parties of second part shall die intestate said child shall inherit and succeed to such a share of the property real and personal of which the parties die seized and possessed as would have descended or would have been distributed to said child if she had been the natural and legitimate child of the parties of the second part and that if the parties of the second part shall die leaving a last will and testament, such will shall contain a provision or provisions giving bequeathing and devising to said child at least as large a share of the estate, real and personal, of the testator as he would have received if said testator had died intestate and said child had been the natural and legitimate child of th”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Geiger v. Estate of Connelly