Godwin v. Marvel’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1965
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In re the Estate of White · In re the Estate of Cavender · Jackson ex dem. Roosevelt v. Thurman · Baning's Will
Most-quoted passages
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““ * * * It will be noticed that the statute of distribution, enacted only two years after the statute of descent, contained an express direction that distribution among children, brothers or other kin in equal degrees shall be in equal portions; and this statement still appears in our present law of distribution. 12 Del.C. § 513. It was not included in the Act of 1827, however, nor is it found in our present law of descents. 12 Del.C. § 501”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Distribution among children, brothers, or other kin in equal degree, shall be in equal portions; but the issue of such of them as shall have died before the intestate, shall take according to stocks, by right of representation; and this rule shall hold, although the distribution be entirely among such issue.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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