Whenever any estate of any kind shall or may be devised or bequeathed by the last will and testament of any testator or testatrix to any person being a child or descendant of such testator or testatrix, and such devisee or legatee shall, during the lifetime of such testator or testatrix, die testate or intestate, leaving a child or children, or one or more descendants of a child or children, who shall survive such testator or testatrix, in that case, such devise or legacy to such person so situated as above mentioned, and dying in the lifetime of the testator or testatrix, shall not lapse, but the estate so devised or bequeathed shall vest in such child or children, descendant or descendants, of such devisee or legatee in the same manner as if a legatee or devisee had survived the testator or testatrix and had died intestate.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 5 - Wills and Testaments
§ 91-5-1. Who may execute; signature; attestation
§ 91-5-5. Children born after making of the will
§ 91-5-7. Bequests not to lapse in certain cases
§ 91-5-9. Devise to witness void
§ 91-5-13. Creditor competent witness to will
§ 91-5-17. Parties in interest to nuncupative will to be cited
§ 91-5-19. Nuncupative will not to be proven after six months unless reduced to writing
§ 91-5-21. Members of armed forces and mariners at sea excepted
§ 91-5-23. Provision for husband or wife to be in bar
§ 91-5-25. Right of spouse to renounce will; form of renunciation; right to intestate share
§ 91-5-27. Effect of no provision for husband or wife
§ 91-5-29. Effect of wife or husband having separate estate
§ 91-5-33. Person who kills another not to take under his will