There shall not be, in any case, a distinction between the kindred of the whole and half-blood, except that the kindred of the whole-blood, in equal degree, shall be preferred to the kindred of the half-blood in the same degree.
Miss. Code Ann. § 91-1-5
Half-bloods
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Matter of Estate of Ford (1989)
Most recently applied in Estate of Eubanks v. Eubanks (January 2014)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 44, art. 2 (50); 1857, ch. 60, art. 110; 1871, § 1949; 1880, § 1271; 1892, § 1544; 1906, § 1650; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1382; 1930, § 1403; 1942, § 469.
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