New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsWhen the person from whom the descent of any land is to be traced has had any relation who, having been attainted, has died before such descent took place, such attainder shall not prevent any person from inheriting such land who would have been capable of inheriting the same by tracing his or her descent through such relation if the relation had not been attainted, unless such land escheated in consequence of such attainder before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.