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PART II. REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS

TITLE II. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS

CHAPTER 191. WILLS

CONTRIBUTION AMONG DEVISEES AND LEGATEES

Chapter 191: Section 28. Contribution by omitted child

Section 28. If a child, or the issue of a child, omitted in the will takes under section twenty a portion of the estate of a testator, such portion of the estate shall, for the purposes of the two preceding sections and section thirty, be considered as if it had been devised or bequeathed to such child or other descendant; and he shall contribute with the devisees and legatees, and be entitled to claim contribution from them, as before provided.