New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INHERITANCE ACT OF 1901 - SECT 15

15 Limitations made before the 1 January 1837, to the heirs of a person then living shall take effect as if the Act had not been passed

Where any assurance executed before the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, or the will of any person dying before the same first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, contains any limitation or gift to the heir or heirs of any person under which the person or persons answering the description of heir are entitled to an estate by purchase, then the person or persons who would have answered such description of heir if this Act or the Acts hereby repealed had not been passed shall become entitled by virtue of such limitation or gift, whether the person named as ancestor was or was not living on or after the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.