Rhode Island General Laws 33-3-1. Power of probate court – Application for division
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After payment of the debts, charges, and expenses of settling the estate of any person dying intestate, the probate court which granted administration on the estate may divide the real estate of which such intestate died seised, among the parties entitled thereto, in the proportion by law prescribed, whenever application in writing shall be made to it for such purpose by all the parties setting forth and particularly describing each parcel of the real estate.
History of Section.
C.P.A. 1905, § 942; G.L. 1909, ch. 316, § 10; G.L. 1923, ch. 367, § 10; G.L. 1938, ch. 567, § 10; G.L. 1956, § 33-3-1.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 33-3-1
- in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
- Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
- Probate: Proving a will
- real estate: may be construed to include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and rights thereto and interests therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-10