ENGLISH AND If Intestate die leaving Next-of-Kin or I. According to Law of England. V. Wife Dying Survived (60.) Husband and grandchild- Whole to husband, § 223. ren. (61.) Husband and children by Whole to husband, § 223. Whole to children equally, One-half to children as legitim, § 113. §§ 88, 128. Whole to children per capita, and issue of deceased children per stirpes, 88, 125. (63.) Rest to them as next-of-kin, §§ 88, 128. by Husband without Children; or, a Woman dying unmarried. The estates of widows and unmarried women not being affected by the (67.) Married Women's Property Act, 1881, fall to be distributed in the same manner as the estates of men dying unmarried. The Intestacy Act, 1855 (§§ 3, 4, and 5) appears at first sight to deal with the estates of male persons only. It defines "Intestate" as meaning and including every person deceased who has left undisposed of. estate in which he might ... have tested; and throughout it speaks generally in the masculine gender. But, in reading all Acts of Parliament, it has to be kept in view that words importing the masculine gender must be taken to include females, and the singular to include the plural, and the plural the singular, unless the contrary as to gender or number is expressly provided (13 Vict. c. 21). (a) Read §§ 78, 90. |