When any person shall die possessed of goods and chattels or personal estate not bequeathed, the same shall descend to and be distributed among his or her heirs in the same manner that real estate not devised descends.
Miss. Code Ann. § 91-1-11
Personal estate to descend as real estate
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 44, art. 2 (52); 1857, ch. 60, art. 111; 1871, § 1951; 1880, § 1273; 1892, § 1547; 1906, § 1653; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1385; 1930, § 1406; 1942, § 472.
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