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With regard to the real and personal estate of every person dying after the commencement of this Act, there shall be abolished: (a) all existing modes, rules and canons of descent, and of devolution by special occupancy or otherwise, of real estate, or of personal estate; (b) tenancy by the curtesy; (c) dower. The residuary estate of an intestate shall he distributed in the manner mentioned in section 4. Where under this Part the residuary estate of an intestate or any part thereof devolves upon or is directed to be distributed among the issue of the intestate such residuary estate or part thereof shall be distributed in equal shares, if more than one, among all or any of the issue of the intestate living at the death of the intestate and among all or any of the issue living at the death of the intestate of any issue of the intestate who predeceases the intestate, such issue to take through all degrees, according to their stocks in equal shares if more than one, the share which their parent would have taken if living at the death of the intestate, and so that no issue shall take whose parent is living at the death of the intestate and so capable of taking.
