Stelzenmuller v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““Descent of real estate.- — The real estate of persons dying intestate, as to such estate descends, subject to the payment of debts, charges against the estate, and the widow’s dower, as follows : “(1) To the children of the intestate, or their descendants, in equal parts. “(2) If there are no children or their descendants, then to the father and mother, in equal parts. “(3) If there are no children or their descendants, and if there be but one surviving parent, then one-half to such surviving parent, and the other half to the brothers and sisters of the intestate, or their descendants, in equal parts. “(4) If there are no children or their descendants, no brothers or sisters or their descendants, and if there he hut one surviving parent, then the whole to such surviving parent. “(5) If there are no children or their descendants, and no father or mother, then to the brothers and sisters of the intestate, or their descendants, in equal parts. “(6) If there are no children or their descendants, no father or mother, and no brothers or sisters or their descendants, then the whole to the husband or wife of the intestate. “(7) If there are no children or their descendants, no father or mother, no brothers or sisters or their descendants, and no husband or wife, then to the next of kin to the intestate, in equal degree, in equal parts. “(8) If there are no children or their descendants, no father or mother, no brothers or sisters or their descendants, no husband or wife, and no next”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mitchell v. Mitchell

2. ““The widow may, in all cases, dissent from the will of her deceased husband, and, in lieu of the provision made for her by such will, take her dower in the lands and such portion of the personal estate as she would have been entitled to in case of intestacy; *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mitchell v. Mitchell