Section 554.31 - Posthumous child; effect of birth on certain future estates.
Revised Statutes of 1846 (EXCERPT)
Chapter 62. Of The Nature And Qualities Of Estates In Real And Personal Property, And The Alienation Thereof.
554.31 Posthumous child; effect of birth on certain future estates.
Sec. 31.
A future estate depending on the contingency of the death of any person without heirs or issue, or children, shall be defeated by the birth of a posthumous child of such person, capable of taking by descent.
History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 62 ;-- CL 1857, 2615 ;-- CL 1871, 4098 ;-- How. 5547 ;-- CL 1897, 8813 ;-- CL 1915, 11549 ;-- CL 1929, 12951 ;-- CL 1948, 554.31