§ 33-6-20 - Devisee or legatee predeceased without issue.
SECTION 33-6-20
§ 33-6-20 Devisee or legatee predeceasedwithout issue. – Unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will, such real estate orinterest therein as shall be comprised or intended to be comprised in anydevise contained in the will, which shall fail or be void by reason of thedeath of the devisee in the lifetime of the testator without leaving issue ofthe devisee living at the time of the testator's death, or by reason of thedevise being contrary to law or otherwise incapable of taking effect, shall beincluded in the residuary devise, if any, contained in the will. If a residuarydevisee or legatee dies before the testator without leaving issue living at thetime of the testator's death, and if there be other residuary devisees orlegatees named in the will in the same residuary clause, the other residuarydevisees or legatees named in that clause, whether a class or not, shall takeat the testator's death the share of the residuary devisee or legatee so dyingin like proportions as their shares bear one to another as expressed in thewill under the residuary clause.