46:3-14 - Rule in Shelley's Case abolished

46:3-14.  Rule in Shelley's Case abolished
    Whenever by conveyance, will or other instrument in writing, to take effect  hereafter, an estate of freehold in any property is limited to a person and the  same instrument contains a limitation, either mediate or immediate, to his  heirs or the heirs or any of the heirs of his body or to his descendants or  issue or any of them, in any manner or by any description such that, by the  application of the rule of the common law, known as the Rule in Shelley's Case,  the word  "heirs"  or other words used in creating the interest after such  estate of freehold would be held to be words of limitation and not of purchase  and such estate of freehold would be held to be enlarged by reason of the use  thereof, then and in any such case the word "heirs"  or other words so used  shall hereafter be held to be words of purchase and not to be words of  limitation and such estate of freehold shall not be held to be enlarged by the  use thereof, to the end that the said rule of the common law, known as the Rule  in Shelley's Case, shall not be applicable to any interest in property created  by any instrument to take effect hereafter.