In the direct line there are as many degrees as there are generations. Thus the son is, with regard to the father, in the first degree; the grandson in the second; and vice versa with regard to the father and grandfather toward the sons and grandsons. R.L. 1910, Sec. 8425.
R.L.1910, § 8425.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
Title 84. Wills and Succession
§84-2. All property of interstate subject to debts.
§84-3. Order of resort to property for payment of debts, administration expenses and allowances.
§84-4. Order of resort to property for payment of legacies.
§84-6. Abatement takes effect how.
§84-7. Title and possession - Representative may sell property devised.
§84-8. Claim under heir against devisee - Probate proceedings.
§84-9. Succession to limited legacies - Inventory of property.
§84-10. Bequest of interest or income begins at death.
§84-11. Satisfaction of legacy before death.
§84-12. Legacies due, when - Annuities.
§84-14. Intention of testator controls.
§84-15. Testator's intention as to executor.
§84-16. Executor may not appoint executor.
§84-17. Executor's power begins, when - Payment of funeral charges, etc.
§84-18. Power of executor of executor.
§84-19. Will includes codicils.
§84-20. Law governing validity and interpretation of wills.
§84-21. Liability of beneficiaries.
§84-22. Disclaimer of interests passing by will, intestate succession, etc. - Definitions
§84-23. Right to file disclaimer - Minor incompetent or deceased beneficiaries.
§84-24. Time for filing disclaimer
§84-25. Place of filing disclaimer - Delivery of copies - Interest in real estate.
§84-26. Disposition of interest disclaimed.
§84-27. Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act not abrogated - Bar on right to disclaim in certain cases.
§84-28. Spendthrift provisions - Binding effect of disclaimer - Spouse of disclaimant.
§84-29. Other rights not abridged.
§84-30. Interest not fixed or finally ascertained - Right to disclaim.
§84-31. Disclaimer of interest in trust - Conditions.
§84-41. Persons who may make a will - Persons subject to guardianship or conservatorship.
§84-42. Right of married woman.
§84-43. Duress, menace, fraud, or undue influence - Revocation.
§84-44. Property which may be disposed of - Election by surviving spouse - Homestead.
§84-45. Persons who may take under will - Exception as to corporation.
§84-46. Nuncupative wills - Requisites.
§84-51. Nuncupative will need not be in writing.
§84-52. Mutual will - Revocation.
§84-53. Probate of conditional will.
§84-54. Holographic wills - Requisites.
§84-55. Formal requisites in execution - Self-proved wills.
§84-56. Method of witnessing a will.
§84-71. Law of place governs execution or revocation.
§84-72. Law must be followed in execution or revocation.
§84-73. Change of domicile does not affect will.
§84-81. Wills deposited with judge of the district court.
§84-82. Delivery of deposited will.
§84-83. Duty of judge having will on deposit after testator's death.
§84-91. Proof of lost or destroyed will
§84-102. Proof of destruction.
§84-103. Effect of alteration or partial erasure
§84-104. Revocation of duplicate will.
§84-105. Revocation by subsequent will.
§84-106. Revocation of subsequent will.
§84-109. Effect of sale of devised property.
§84-110. Encumbrance not a revocation.
§84-111. Partial disposal not a revocation.
§84-112. When intent to revoke expressed.
§84-113. Codicils revoked with will.
§84-114. Divorce or annulment as revoking will.
§84-131. After-born children not provided for in will.
§84-132. Provision for children unintentionally omitted.
§84-133. How provision made as to child born after or omitted from will.
§84-134. Advancements cover rights.
§84-141. Devise of land gives all estator's estate.
§84-142. Death of devisee or legatee before testator - Rights of descendants.
§84-143. Gift to witness void - Exception.
§84-144. Witness entitled without will.
§84-145. Subsequent incompetency of witnesses immaterial.
§84-146. Property acquired after will.
§84-151. Intention of testator governs.
§84-152. Ascertaining intention.
§84-153. Rules of this article govern interpretation.
§84-154. Several instruments construed as one.
§84-155. Irreconcilable parts.
§84-156. Plain devise not affected by other parts of will.
§84-158. Words taken in ordinary sense.
§84-159. Words to be given effect if possible.
§84-160. Interpretation against total intestacy.
§84-162. Technical expression not required.
§84-163. Words of inheritance not necessary.
§84-164. Execution of power to devise.
§84-165. General disposition includes what.
§84-166. Devise of residue of real estate.
§84-167. Devise of residue of personalty.
§84-168. Effect of certain terms as "heirs," "relations," etc.
§84-169. When terms "heirs," "relations," etc. construed as words of donation.
§84-170. Words referring to survivorship.
§84-171. Disposition to class includes all.
§84-172. Conversion of realty into money.
§84-173. Unborn child included in class, when.
§84-174. Errors corrected, how.
§84-175. Rights presumed to vest on testator's death.
§84-176. Rights divested, when.
§84-177. Death of devisee or legatee causes failure.
§84-178. Remaindermen not affected by death of devisee or legatee.
§84-179. Conditional disposition defined.
§84-180. Condition precedent defined.
§84-181. Condition precedent must be fulfilled - Exception.
§84-182. Substantial compliance as performance of condition precedent.
§84-183. Condition subsequent defined.
§84-184. Owners in common created, when.
§84-185. Gifts do not reduce legacies.
§84-186. Unlimited marital deduction - Interpretation of will.
§84-213. Descent and distribution.
§84-214. Dower and courtesy abolished.
§84-215. Inheritance by and from illegitimate child.
§84-216. Inheritance from illegitimate child.
§84-218. Lineal and collateral.
§84-219. Ascending and descending lines.
§84-220. Degrees in direct line.
§84-221. Collateral degrees, how reckoned.
§84-222. Kindred of the half-blood.
§84-225. Advancements defined.
§84-226. Expressed value of advancement governs.
§84-227. Representation in advancements.
§84-228. Representation defined - Posthumous children.
§84-230. Liabilities of heirs.
§84-231. Offenses precluding a person from inheriting or benefiting by insurance of victim.
§84-232. Automobiles - Surviving spouse's rights.
§84-251. Proceedings authorized - Jurisdiction - Final determination - Appeal.
§84-253. Hearing, process and service.
§84-254. Trial and judgment - Rehearings.
§84-259. Conclusiveness of judgment.
§84-260. Service by publication - Mailing notice to persons named in petition.
§84-271. Conditions of escheat.
§84-271.1. Abandoned mineral interests.
§84-273. Petition in escheat by Attorney General or district attorney.
§84-274. Summons - Notification to Attorney General.
§84-275. Parties - Trial and judgment - Costs.
§84-305. Life insurance policies - Trustee named by will as beneficiary.
§84-306. Liability for debts and taxes.
§84-307. Commingling of proceeds.
§84-308. Prior beneficiary designations not affected.
§84-853. Requirements of a will.
§84-854. Signature, date, and declaration.
§84-855. Signature establishing execution of valid international will.
§84-856. Certificate - Formal validity.
§84-857. International will - Rules of revocation of wills.