When a trustee is seized of the naked legal estate in real estate in fee simple, and dies intestate thereof, the legal estate descends according to section 19-301 to the persons who would inherit the beneficial estate if it were vested in them.
D.C. Code § 19-317
Trust estates
Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 699, Pub
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