A will shall be construed, in reference to the real and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, and shall convey all the real estate belonging to the testator, or in which the testator had any interest at the testator's decease, unless a contrary intention appear by its words in context.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 32-3-101
Operation of will
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Fell v. Rambo (2000)
Most recently applied in In Re Estate of McFarland (July 2005)
Code 1858, § 2195 (deriv
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