Section 44-6-66. Preference for vested remainders; construction of words of survivorship in wills

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The law favors the vesting of remainders in all cases of doubt. In construing wills, words of survivorship shall refer to those survivors living at the time of the death of the testator in order to vest remainders unless a manifest intention to the contrary shall appear.

Orig. Code 1863, § 2251; Code 1868, § 2243; Code 1873, § 2269; Code 1882, § 2269; Civil Code 1895, § 3104; Civil Code 1910, § 3680; Code 1933, § 85-708.

                    
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