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PUBLIC LAW 89-183-SEPT. 14, 1965

[79 STAT.

sonal estate, and inherits so much, only, of the real estate, of the intestate, as is sufficient to make all the shares of all the children in the whole property, including the advancement, equal. The value of real or personal estate so advanced shall be estimated according to the worth thereof when given. Maintenance or education of a child or descendant, or giving him money or real estate, without a view to a portion or settlement in life, is not an advancement. (b) Where an advancement to be adjusted, as provided by subsection (a) of this section, consisted of real estate, the adjustment shall be made out of the real estate descendible to the heirs. Where the advancement was in personal estate, the adjustment shall be made out of the surplus of the personal estate to be distributed to the distributees. Where either species of estate is insufficient to enable the adjustment to be fully made, the deficiency shall be adjusted out of the other. §19-320. Felonious homicide as barring inheritance; insurance policies; bona fide purchasers (a) A person convicted of felonious homicide of another person, by way of murder or manslaughter, takes no estate or interest in property of any kind from that other person by way of: (1) inheritance, distribution, devise, or bequest; or (2) remainder, reversion, or executory devise dependent upon the death of the other person. The estate, 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 decedent goes, instead, as if the person so convicted had died before the decedent. (b) Policies of insurance directly or indirectly procured by a person convicted as specified by subsection (a) of this section, for his own benefit or payable to him upon the life of the person killed by him, are void. (c) This section does not affect the rights of bona fide purchasers of property specified by subsection (a) of this section, for value and without notice. § 19-321. Descent through alien ancestor no bar I n making title by descent it is no bar to a party claiming as heir that an ancestor, whether living or dead, through whom he derives his descent from the intestate, is or has been an alien. CHAPTER 5—SIMULTANEOUS DEATHS—UNIFORM LAW Sec.

19-501. No sufficient evidence of survivorship. 19-502. Survival of beneficiaries. 19-503. Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety. 19-504. Insurance policies. 19-505. Chapter does not apply if decedent provides otherwise. 19-506. Short title; effective date; chapter not retroactive; construction. § 19-501. No sufficient evidence of survivorship Where the title to property or the devolution thereof depends upon priority of death and there is not sufficient evidence that the persons have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property of each person shall be disposed of as if he had survived, except as provided otherwise by this chapter. § 19-502. Survival of beneficiaries Where property is so disposed of that the right of a beneficiary to succeed to any interest therein is conditional upon his surviving another person, and both persons die, and there is not sufficient evidence

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