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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955 - SECT 1

1.(1) Real estate to which a deceased person was entitled for an estate or
interest not ceasing on his death shall on his death, notwithstanding any
testamentary disposition, devolve upon and become vested in his
personal representatives from time to time as if it were personal estate
vesting in them, and shall on intestacy be distributed in accordance with
Part II as if it were the personal estate of an intestate who died domiciled
in Northern Ireland.

(2) Personal representatives shall be the representatives of a deceased person
in regard to his real estate as well as in regard to his personal estate, and
probate and letters of administration may be granted either separately in
respect of real estate and in respect of personal estate, or in respect of
real estate together with personal estate and may be granted in respect of
real estate although there is no personal estate, or in respect of personal
estate although there is no real estate so, however, that where the estate of
the deceased person is known to be insolvent, the grant shall not be severed
except as regards a trust estate.

(3) Without prejudice to the succeeding provisions of this section all
existing rules, modes and canons of descent and of devolution by special
occupancy are hereby abolished except in so far as they may apply to the
descent of an entailed estate or interest.

(4) Dower and tenancy by the curtesy are hereby abolished.

(5) Escheat to the Crown and escheat to a mesne lord for want of heirs are
hereby abolished.

(6) This section shall apply to any real estate over which a person exercises
by will a general power of appointment, as if it were real estate vested in
him.

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