In Rhode Island, where any person having title to any real estate of inheritance dies inteetate, ouch estate descends in equal portions-1. To his children or their descendants. 2. To the father. 3. To the mother, brothers, and sisters, and their descendants. 4. If there be none of these, the in heritance goes in equal moieties to the paternal and maternal kindred, each in the following course: -(1) to the grandfather, if there be any; (2) to the grandmother, uncles, and aunts, on the same side, and their descendants; (3) to the great-grand fathers, or great-grandfather; (4) to the great grandmothers, or great-grandmother, and the bro thers and sisters of the grandfathers and grand mothers and their deeiendants, and so on without end,-pasaing first to the nearest lineal male an cestors, and for want of them to the lineal female ancestors in the same degree, and the descendants of auch male and female lineal ancestors. 5. No right in the inheritance accrues to any persons whatsoever, other than to the children of the in testate, unless such persons be in being, and ca pable, in law, to take as heirs, nt the time of the intestate's death. 6. When the inheritance is di rected to go by moieties, as above, to the paternal and maternal kindred, if there he no such kindred on the one part, the whole goes to the other part; and if there be none of either part, the whole goes to the husband or wife of the intestate; and if the wife or husband be dead, it goes to his or her kin dred in the like course as if such husband or wife had survived the intestate and then died entitled to the estate. 7. The descendants of any person deceased inherit the estate which such person would have inherited had such person survived the intestate. 8. If the estate came by descent, gift, or devise, from the parent or other kindred of the intestate, and such intestate die without children, it goes to the next of kin to the intestate, of the blood of the person from whom such estate came or descended, if any there he. R. I. Rev. Stat. 1857, c. 159, n 1-6. In default of heirs, the estate is token pos session of by the town where it may be. R. I. Rev. Stat. 1857, c. 160.
In South Carolina, when any person possessed of, interested in, or entitled to any real estate in his own right, in fee-simple, dies intestate, it de acends-1. One-third to the widow in fee, the re mainder to the children. 2. Lineal descendants represent their parents. 3. If there be no issue or other lineal descendant, then one half goes to the widow, and the other half to the father, or, if be he dead, to the mother. 4. If there be neither issue nor parent, then one half goes to the widow; and the other half to the brother° and sisters and their issue by representation. 5. If there be no issue, nor parent, nor brother, nor sister of the whole blood, but a widow, and a brother or sister of the half-blood, and a child or children of a brother or sister of the whole blood, then the widow takes one moiety, and the other is divided equally between the brothers and sisters of the half-blood, and the children of the brothers and sisters of the whole blood,-the children of every deceased brother or sister of the whole blood taking among them a share equal to the share of a brother or sister of the half-blood. But if there be no brother or sister of the half-blood, then a moiety of the estate descends to the child or chil dren of the deceased brother or sister; and if there be no child of the whole blood, then to the brothers and sisters of the half-hlood. 6. If there be no
issue, nor parent, nor brother, nor sister of the whole blood, nor their children, nor any brother nor sister of the half-blood, then one half goes to the widow and the other half to the lineal ancestors; but if there he none of these, then the widow takes two-thirds and the residue goes to the next of kin. 7, If there be no widow, her share in each of the preceding cases goes to the residue. 8. On the de cease of the wife, the husband takes the same share iu his wife's estate that she would have taken in his had she survived him, and the remainder goes in the same manner as above described in case of the intestacy of a man. 9. If there be ne widow nor issue, but a surviving parent and brothers and sisters, then it goes in equal shares to the father, or, if he be dead, to the mother, and to the bro thers and sisters and their issue by representation. 10. If there be no issue, parent, nor brother nor sister of the whole blood, nor their children, nor brother nor sister of the half-blood, nor lineal an cestor, nor next of kin, the whole goes to the sur viving husband or wife. 5 So. C. Stat. at Large, '162, 163, 305; 6 id. 284, 285.
In Tennessee, the land of an intestate descends 1. Without reference to the source of his title-(1) te all the sons and daughters equally, and to their descendants by right of representation; (2) if there he aces of these, and either parent be living, then to such parent. 2. If the estate was acquired by the intestate, and he died without issue-(1) to he brothers and sisters of the whole and half blood, bore before or after his death, and to their issue by representation ; (2) in default of these, to the father and m ither as tenants in common; (3) if both be dead, then in equal moieties to the heirs of the father and mother in equal degree, or representing those in equal degree, of relationship to the intes tate; but if these are not in equal. degree, then to the heirs nearest in bleed, or representing those nearest is blood, to the intestate, in preference to ethers more remote. 3. When the land came by gift, devise, or descent from a parent or the an cestor of a parent, and he died without issue-(1) if there be brothers and sisters of the paternal line of the half-blood, and such also of the maternal line, then it descends to the brothers and sisters on the part ef the parent from whom the estate came, in the same manner as to brothers and sisters of the whole blood, until the line of su :h parent is exhausted of the half-blood, to the exclusion of the other line; (2) if no brothers or sisters, then to the parent, if living, from whom or whose ancestors it came, in preference to the other parent; (3) if both be dead, then to the heirs of the parent from whom or whose ancestor it came. 4. The same rules of descent are observed in lineal descendants and col laterals respectively, when the lineal descendants are further removed from their ancestor than grandchildren, and when the collaterals are further removed than children of brothers and sisters. 5. If there be no heirs, then to the husband or wife in fee-simple. 6. A child ef color cannot inherit the estate of its mother's husband, unless the mother or husband was a person of color. Tenn. Code, 1858, p. 476, 00 2420-2425.