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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 197. PAYMENT OF DEBTS, LEGACIES AND DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES

Chapter 197: Section 23. Class legacies

[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 16. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

  Section 23. If under a will a legacy is to be distributed in whole or in part among the heirs or next of kin of any person, or among persons of a certain class, the probate court, upon the application of any person interested, after notice, may order distribution among such persons as according to the will seem to be entitled to the legacy.