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PART II. REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS

TITLE I. TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY

CHAPTER 184. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO REAL PROPERTY

Chapter 184: Section 33A. Doctrine of worthier title; testamentary conveyances or devises; abolition

Section 33A. When any interest in real or personal property is limited, mediately or immediately, in an otherwise effective testamentary conveyance or devise, in form or in effect, to the heirs or next of kin of the conveyor, or to a person or persons who on the death of the conveyor are some or all of his heirs or next of kin, such conveyees or devisees acquire the interest that the conveyance or devise purports to create by purchase and not by descent.