LEGITIMACY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1928 - SECT 3 Rights of legitimated persons, etc., to take interests in property.

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LEGITIMACY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1928 - SECT 3

Rights of legitimated persons, etc., to take interests in property.

3.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a legitimated person and his
spouse, children or remoter issue shall be entitled to take any interest

(a)in the estate of an intestate dying after the date of legitimation;

(b)under any disposition coming into operation after the date of legitimation;

(c)by descent under a disposition whereby an estate tail has been created
after the date of legitimation;

(2) Where the right to any property, real or personal, depends on the relative
seniority of the children of any person, and those children include one or
more legitimated persons, the legitimated person or persons shall rank as if
he or they had been born on the day when he or they became legitimated by
virtue of this Act, and if more than one such legitimated person became
legitimated at the same time, they shall rank as between themselves in order
of seniority.

(3) Where property real or personal or any interest therein is limited in such
a way that, if this Act had not been passed, it would (subject or not to any
preceding limitations or charges) have devolved (as nearly as the law permits)
along with a dignity or title of honour, then nothing in this Act shall
operate to sever the property or any interest therein from such dignity, but
the same shall go and devolve (without prejudice to the preceding limitations
or charges aforesaid) in like manner as if this Act had not been passed. This
sub-section applies, whether or not there is any express reference to the
dignity or title of honour and notwithstanding that in some events the
property, or some interest therein, may become severed therefrom.

(4) This section applies only if and so far as a contrary intention is not
expressed in the disposition, and shall have effect subject to the terms of
the disposition and to the provisions therein contained.

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LEGITIMACY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1928 - SECT 3