In Manacluisette, when a person dies abed of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of any right thereto, or entitled to any interest therein, in fee simple or for the life of another, they descend, sub ject to his debts-1. In equal shares to his children and the issue of any deceased child by right of representation ; and if there is no child of the in testate living at his death, then to all his other lineal descendants.-equally, if they are all of the same degree of kindred, otherwise according to the right of representation. 2. If he leaves no issue, then to his father. 3. If he leaves no issue not father, then in equal shares to his mother, brothers, and sisters, and to the children of any deceased brother or sister by right of representation. 4. If he leaves no issue, and no father, mother, brother, nor sister, then to his next of kin in equal degree, -those claiming through the nearest ancestor to be preferred to those 'claiming through one mere remote. 5. If n person dies leaving several children, or leaving one child and the issue of one or more others, and any such surviving child-dies under age and not having been married, all the estate that came to the deceased child by inheritance from such deceased parent descends in equal shares to the other children of the some parent, and to the issue of any such other children who have died, by right of representation. 41. If at the death at' such, child all the other children of such deceased parent nes also dead, and any of them have left issue, the estate that come to snob child by inheritance from such parent descends to all the issue of the other children of the same parent,-equally, if they ate in the same degree of kindred to the child, other wise according to the.right of representation. 7. If the intestate leaves a widow and no kindred, his estate descends to his widow; and if the intestate is a married woman, and leaves no kindred, her estate descends to her husband. 8. In default of kindred, the estate escheats to the commonwealth. It is provided that the degrees of kindred shall he computed according to the rules of the civil law, and that the kindred of the half-blood shall inherit equally with those of the whsle blood in the same degree. Mass. Genl. Stat. c. 91, 1-5.
In Michigan, the statute of descent is the same as in Wisconsin. 2 Mich. Comp. Laws, 1857, c. 91, p. 858.
In Minnesota, the same is true as in Michigan. Minn. Stat. 1853, c. 37, p. 411.
In Mississippi, when any person dies seised of nny estate of inheritance in lands, tenements, and hercditaments, it descends-1. To his children and their descendants in equal parts by right of repre sentation. 2. To brothers and sisters and their descendants in the same manner. 3. If there be none of these, then to the father, if living; if not, to the mother; if both be living, then to each in equal portions. 4. To the next of kin in equal degree, computing by the rules of the civil law. 5. There is no representation among collaterals except with the descendants of the brothers and sisters of the intestate. 6. There is no distinction between the half and the whole blood, except that the whole blood is preferred to the half-blood, in the some degree. 7. A surviving wife inherits whole estate in preference to collateral relatives more remote than the fourth degree, by the ruleS of the civil law. Miss. Rev. Code, 1857, p. 452.
In ellimioure, real estate of inheritance descends I. To children or their descendants in equal parts.
2. If none of these, to the father, mother, brothers, and sisters, and their descendants, in equal parts.
3. If none of these, then to the husband or wife. If no husband or wife, then to the grandfather, grandmother, armies, and aunts, and their descend ants, in equal parts. 5. If none of these, then to the great-grandfathers, great-grandmothers, and their descendants, in spa,' parts; and so on, passing to the nearest lineal 'ancestors, and their children and'their 'desCendants, in equal parts. 6. If there lie no kindred above named, nor any husband or wife, capable of inheriting, then the estate goes to the kindre'd of the wife'Or husband of the intestate, in the like course as if such wife or husband bad intestate and then died entitled to the estate. 7. When some of the collaterals are of the half-blood and some of the whole blood, those of the half-blood inherit only h.. f as much as those of the whole hived; but if all such collaterals he of the half-blood, they have whole portions, only giving to the ascendants double portions. 3. When all are of equal degree of consanguinity to the in testate, they take per capita; if of different degrees, per etirpee. 1 Mo. Rev. Stat. 1855, e. 54, p. 659.
In New Hampline, the real estate of every in. testate descends in equal shares-I. To the children of the deceased and the regal representatives of such erthem as are dead. 2: 'If there be no issue, to the father,if he is living. 3. If there be no issue nor father, in equal shares to the mother, and to the brothers and sisters, or their representatives. 4. To the next of kin in equal shares. 5. If the intestate be a minor and unmarried, his estate, derived by descent 'or devise from his father or mother, gees to his brothers or sisters, or their representatives, to the exclusion of the other parent. 6. No repre sentation is admitted among collaterals beyond the degree of brothers' and sisters' children. 7. In default of heirs, it escheats to the state. N. H. Comp. Laws, 1853, e. 176, 1-3, 7.
In New Jereey, when a jesison dies seised of any lands, tenements, or hereffitamenti, in his or her awn right in fee-eiMple, they descend-1. To the children of the intestate and their issue, by right of representation to the remotest degree. 2. To brothers and sisters of the whole blood, and their issue, in the same manner. 3. To tliefather, unless tile inheritance came from.the part of the mother, in which ease it descends as if the father had pre viously died. 4. To the mother for life, and after her death to go as if the mother had previously Flied. 5. If ,there be no such kindred, then to bro thers and sisters of the half-blood and their issue by right of representation'; but if the estate came from an ancestor, then only to those of the blood of such ancestor, if any be living. 6. If there he none of these, then to the next of kin in equal de gree,-suhject to the restriction aforementioned as to ancestral estates. Nixon, Dig. N. J. Laws, 1855, pp. 194-196.