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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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1998 ARTICLE 46

An. Code, 1924, sec. 4. 1912, sec. 4. 1916, ch. 325, sec. 4.

4. The Act of 1916, Chapter 325, shall not be construed as abolishing
the estates known as the dower of a widow and the dower of a surviving
husband, but any party entitled to such right of dower shall be presumed
to have waived and surrendered the same, and to have accepted the
provisions of the Act, unless within the period of six months after the
death of the spouse by virtue of whose ownership such right of dower
attached, such surviving wife or husband shall file with the Orphans'
Court or Register of Wills for the county or counties where such real
estate is situate, a signed written election to take the dower to which she
or he is so entitled by virtue of such inchoate right; in which case such
surviving wife or husband shall be entitled to dower, but shall be con-
sidered to have renounced any other right in the real estate in Maryland
of the deceased spouse in favor of the other heirs, to whom the same
shall pass.

Cited but not construed in Scher v. Becker, 163 Md. 203.

Cited in Safe Deposit & Trust Co., 3 F. Supp. 151.

Cited in Second Nat. Bank v. Bank, 171 Md. 552.

Cited but not construed in Elwood v. Lannon, 27 Md. 208; Bishop v. Safe Deposit

6 Trust Co., 170 Md. 627.
See notes to secs. 1, 2 and 3.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 5. 1912, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 24. 1888, sec. 24. 1831, ch. 311, sec. 11.

5.1 But where a trustee in fee tail or fee simple of any lands, tenements
or hereditaments, who shall be seized of the naked legal estate therein

1 The act of 1916, ch. 325, repealed art. 46, secs. 5 to 23, 25 to 28 and 31 of the An.
Code 1912. In order that the decisions construing those sections may not be lost sight
of, however, they are here printed in a footnote following the section number in the An.
Code of 1912 to which they refer.

5. Before an uncle of the intestate could claim under sec. 6, Code 1912, he must prove
that intestate's grandfather is dead. Elwood v. Lannon, 27 Md. 208.

This section referred to in construing sec. 27 of An. Code 1912—see notes thereto in
this footnote. Suman v. Harvey, 114 Md. 241.

6. In absence of all heirs to claim under prior sections, children of a deceased
uncle of intestate inherit per capita, to exclusion of grandchildren of such uncle. Stewart
v. Collier, 3 H. & J. 290.

This section referred to in construing sec. 27 of An. Code 1912—see notes thereto in
this footnote. Suman v. Harvey, 114 Md. 241.

For cases held to be within the act of 1786, ch. 45 (act to direct descents), see
Stewart v. Jones, 8 G. & J. 28; Stewart v. Evans, 3 H. & J. 287; Medley v. Williams,

7 G. & J. 71.

10. This section applied. Levering v. Heighe, 2 Md. Ch. 88.

13. This section referred to in construing sec. 27 of An. Code 1912—see notes thereto
in this footnote. Suman v. Harvey, 114 Md. 241.

14. An estate descended from mother, held to be inherited by an aunt of intestate.
Snyder v. Jones, 99 Md. 695. And see Levering v. Heighe, 3 Md. Ch. 374.

This section applied. Billingsley v. Tongue, 9 Md. 582.

This section referred to in construing sec. 27 of An. Code 1912—see notes thereto in
this footnote. Suman v. Harvey, 114 Md. 241.

19. Under this section nieces inherit to exclusion of first cousins. No person can
claim under sec. 21, An. Code 1912, until those included in this section and sec. 20 of
said Code are extinct, and proviso at end of sec 27, said Code, does not alter this rule.
The word "descendants," construed. Hoffman v. Watson, 109 Md. 545. And see Elwood
v. Lannon, 27 Md. 210; Maxwell v. Seney, 5 H. & J. 23; Suman v. Harvey, 114 Md. 241.

Grand-nephews are not entitled to inherit where intestate leaves nephews surviving.
The proviso at end of sec. 27, An. Code, 1912, does not alter this rule. Where nephews
alone inherit, they take per stirpes and not per capita—see sec. 27, said Code. McComas
v. Amos, 29 Md. 138.

Upon death of a woman intestate and without issue, her husband being dead, her real
estate passes under this section to descendants of intestate's only sister of whole blood.
Conversion. Keller v. Harper, 64 Md. 84.

While in general, if an heir conveys property away and it is then conveyed back to
him, he thereafter holds property by purchase and not by descent, rule is different
where heir unites with other heirs in conveying property which has descended to them,


 

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