In Iowa-I. To children and their issue by right of representation. 2. If no issue, one half to the parents of the intestate, and the other half to hie wifo; if helear e no wife, the portion which would have gone to her goes to his parents. Laws of 1858, c. 63, p. 96. 3. If one of • the parents be dead, the surviving parent takes the share of both, including that which would have belonged to the intestate's wife if she had been living. Id. 4. If both parents he dead, their portion goes, in the same manner as if they or either of them had out lived the intestate, to their heirs. Id. 5. If the mother be the surviving parent, she takes only a. life-estate, remainder to the children of her body by her deceased husband, he being father of the intestate. If there be no such children nor issue of such, then the property is to be divided between the nearest heirs of the father and mother eqnally. Id. 6. If there be no heirs, the estate escheats to the state. Iowa Code, 1851, gi 1908-1415; Iowa Laws, 1858, c. 63, p.. 96; Revision, 1860, n 2436-2498. ' In Kansas-I. To children in equal shares, and to the issue of such by right of representation. 2. To the wife, and if no wife, to the father. 3. If the father be dead, the portion which would have fallen to him is disposed of in the same manner as though he had outlived the intestate, and died in the pus seeeion of the portion thus falling to his share, and so on through each ascending ancestor and issue, unless heirs are sooner found. 4. If heirs are not found in the male line, the portion thus inherited goes to the mother of the intestate and to her heirs, following the same rules as above prescribed. 5. If heirs are not thus found, the portion unin herited goes to the wife of the intestate or to her heirs, if dead, according to like rules; and if he has bad more than one wife, who either died or survived in lawful wedlock, it is equally divided between the one who is living and the heirs of those who are dead, or between the heirs of all, if all are dead, such heirs taking by right of repre sentation. 6. If still there be property unin herited, it escheats to the state. 7. Children of the half-blood inherit equally with children of the whole blood. Genl. Laws, 1862, c. 80, 16, 22, 30.
In Kentucky, the statute of descents is the same as in Virginia. 1 Ky. Rev. Stat. Stant. ed. 1860, c. 30, p. 419.
In Louisiana-I. To the ohildren and their iesue: if in equal degree, then per capita; otherwise, per stirpes. 2. To the parents of the intestate, one moiety; and the other moiety to his brothers and sisters and their issue. If one parent be dead, his or her share goes to the brothers and sisters of the deceased, who then have three-fourths. If both parents be dead, the whole ..goes to the brethers and sisters and their issue. 3. If the brothers and sisters are all of the same marriage, they share equally: If they are of different marriages, the portion is divided equally between the paternal and maternal lines of the intestate, the german brothers and sisters taking a part in each line. If the bro thers and sisters nre on one side only, they take the whole, to the exclusion of all relations of the other line. 4. If there be no issue, nor parent, nor brothers, nor sisters, nor their issue, then the in heritance goes to the ascendants in the paternal and maternal lines, one moiety to each,-these in each line taking per capita. If there is in the nearest degree hut one ascendant in the two lines, he ex cludes all others of a remoter degree, and takes the whole. 5. If there be none of the heirs above mentioned, then the inheritance goes to the col lateral relations of the intestate,-those in the nearest degree excluding all others. If there are several persons in the same degree, they take per capita. 6. Representation takes place ad infla
tion in the direct descending line, but does not take place in favor of ascendants,-the nearest in de gree always excluding those of a degree superior or more remote. 7. In the collateral line, repre sentation is admitted in favor of the issue of the brothers and sisters of the intestate, whether they succeed in concurrence with the uncles and aunts, or whether the brothers and sisters, being dead, their issue succeed in equal or unequal degrees. 8. When representation is admitted, the partition is made per stirpes ; and if one root has produced several branches, the subdivision is also made by roots in each branch, and the members of the branch take between themselves per capita. La. Civ. Code, art. 882-910.
In Maine. The law of descents in Maine was originally derived from that of Massachusetts, and is now the same, except that in Maine there is no provision that in default of kindred the estate shall descend to the widow or to the husband. The statute of Maine regulates the descent of the real estate of the intestate without further specifi cation. Me. Rev. Stat. 1847, a. 75; ?? 1, 2.
In Maryland, when any person dies seised of an estate in any lands, tenements, or hereditamente, in foe-simple or in fee-simple conditional, or of an estate in fee-tail, such estate descends-]. To chil dren and their descendants. 2. If no issue, and the estate descended on the part of the father, then to the father. 3. If no father, to the brothers and sisters of the intestate of the blood of the father and their descendants. 4. If none of these, then to the grandfather on the part of the father, if living, otherwise to his descendants in equal degree; and if there be none such, then to the father of such grandfather and his descendants, and so on to the next lineal male paternal ances tor and his descendants, without end. And if there he no paternal ancestor, nor descendants of any, then to the mother and the kindred on her side in the same manner as above directed. 5. If there be no issue, and the estate descended on the part of the mother, then to the mother; and if no mother living, then to the brothers and sisters of her blood and their descendants; and if there be none of these, to her kindred in the same order as above; and in default of maternal kindred, then to the paternal kindred in the same manner as above directed. 6. If the estate was acquired by pur chase, and there be no issue, then it descends-(1) to the brothers and sisters of the whole blood, and their descendants in equal degree; (2) then to the brothers and sisters of I he half-blood; (3) if none of these, to the father; (4) if no father, to the mother; (5) if neither of the above kin dred, then to the paternal grandfather and his descendants in equal degree; then to the ma ternal grandfather and his descendants in equal degree; then to the paternal great-grandfather and his descendants in the same manner, and so on, alternating and giving preference to the paternal ancestor. 7. If there be no kindred, then the estate goes to the surviving wife or husband, and their kindred. as an estate by purchase; and if the intestate has bad more husbands or wives than one, all of whom are dead, then to their kin dred in equal degree, equally. 8. No distinction is made between brothers and sisters of the whole and half blood, all being descendants of the same father, where the estate descended on the part of the father, nor where all are descendants of the same mother, the estate descending on her part. 9. Children take by representation ; but no repre sentation is admitted among eollaterals after bro thers' and sisters' children. 1 Dorsey, Md. Laws, 745; Code, 1860, pp. 330-333.