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 l344 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 854. 1901. tate by virtue of the provisions aforesaid they shall be tenants in common. Autenuptiul chu- Sec. 957. ANTENUPTIAD CHILDREN.—If any man shall have a child d’°“‘ or children by any woman whom he shall afterwards marry, such child or children, if acknowledged by the man, shall, in virtue of such marriage and acknowledgment, be legitimated and capable in la`;. of inheriting and transmitting heritable property as if born in wedlock. 1¤1esitim¤w¤hi1dr¤¤· Sec. 958. ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.—Th€ illegitimate child or children of any female and the issuelof such illegitimate child or children shall be capable in law of taking real estate by inheritance from their mother, or from each other, or from the descendants of each other, as the case may be; and where such illegitimate child or children shall - die leaving no descendants or brothers or sisters, or the descendants of such brothers or sisters, then and in that case the mother of such illegitimate child or children, if living, shall be entitled as heir to the real estate of such illegitimate child or children, and if the mother be dead, the heirs of the mother shall take in like manner as if such illegitimate child or children had been born in lawful wedlock. bAdvg€¤?§%§¤g]ggc*;$ Sec. 959. ADvANoEMENTs.—Any child or children of an intestate, pifillg or their issue, who may have received from the intestate any real estate by way of advancement may elect to come into partition with his other heirs on bringing such advancement, or the value thereof at the time such advancement was received, into hotchpot with the estate descended; but such child or children, or their issue, shall not be entitled to claim a share by descent without bringing such advancement, or the value thereof as aforesaid, into the common stock or hotch ot, if there be {yzvggé mommy another child or children unprovided for: Provided, That if any child treated as in came. or children or descendant shall have been advanced by the intestate by settlement or portion of personalty, which shall not be equalized under the provisions of section three hundred and seventy-nine of this code, such advance shall be treated as real estate for the purposes of this section. Alien ¤¤¢¢S¤>¤- Sec. 960. ALIEN ANCESTORS.—II1 making title by descent it shall be no bar to a party claiming as heir that any ancestor, whether living or dead, through whom he derives his descent from the intestate is or has _ been an alien. Pmg ¤<>mml”*¤$ Sec. 961. PARTY COMMITTING MURDER OR MANSLAUGHTER TAKES NO ID ll. l` B l` O I' ID 8. I1. snignm takes min- INTEREST IN ESTATE OF DECEASED.—-—N0 person who shall be convicted f,‘§,@d{“ mm °f dt of the felonious homicide of another, either by way of murder or manslaughter, shall take any estate or interest of any kind whatsoever in any kind of property whatsoever from that other by way of inheritance, distribution, devise, or bequest, or shall take any remainder, reversion, or executory interest dependent upon the death of that other; and the estate or interest or property to which the person so convicted would have succeeded or would have taken in any way from or after the death of the person so killed by him shall go as if the person so convicted had died before the person whom he shall be convicted of killing. And every policy of insurance procured, directly or indirectly, by the person so convicted for his own benefit or payable to him upon the life of the person so killed'shall be void. This act shall not affect the rights of bona fide purchasers of any such property for value without notice. wheulandseschwr- Sec. 962. WHEN minus EsoHEAT.—Any lands within the District of Columbia of which any person has died or shall hereafter die seized in fee simple, without any heir of the whole blood who could have inherited if he had been a citizen of the United States, or without leaving any relation of the half blood within two degrees, that is, first cousins as the same are reckoned by the common law, shall escheat to the United States.