808 INHERITANCE—DESCENTS. [ART. 46.

55. Bond to the State for the whole unpaid purchase money , bond to be lien on the land 56. Failure of purchaser to comply ; proceedings upon 57. Curtesy and life estate of sur- viving husband 58. Sale free of such curtesy and life estate. 59. Allowance to such tenant by the curtesy or for life. 60. Where such estate is acquired after return, but before sale, return shall be altered accord- ingly. 61. Life tenant under deed or devise; same proceedings to be hod

62. Widow's dower to be laid off. 63 Consent of widow to sale ; allow- ance out of proceeds 64. Compensation to commissioners, how paid. 65. Deed to the party electing upon payment of valuation. 66. Deed to the purchaser. 67. Deed to assignee or representative of purchaser. 68. Vacancies amongst commissioners, how to be filled. 69 Court may order deed to be made to purchaser. 70 Proceedings not to be set aside for matter of form.

Descents.

P. G. L, (1860,) art. 47, sec. 1. 1786, ch. 45. 1820, ch. 191, sec. 1.

1. If any person seized of an estate in lands, tenements, or
hereditaments, lying in this State, in fee simple, or fee simple
conditional, or of an estate in fee tail general, shall die intestate
thereof, such lands, tenements or hereditaments shall descend in
fee simple to the kindred, male and female, of such person, in the
following order, to wit:

Mason v. Johnson, 47 Md. 356.

Ibid sec. 2. 1820, ch. 191, sec. 1.

2. To the child or children and their descendants, if any,
equally.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1820, ch. 191, sec. 1.

3. If no child of descendant, and the estate descended to the
intestate on the part of the father, then to the father.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1820, ch. 191, sec. 1.

4. If no father living, then to the brothers and sisters of the
intestate of the blood of the father, and their descendants, equally.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1820, ch. 191, sec. 1.

5. If no brother or sister as aforesaid, or descendant from such
brother or sister, then to the grandfather, on the part of the
father.