Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 33-6 - Proof and Construction of Wills
Section 33-6-19. - Substitution of issue for beneficiary predeceasing testator.

§ 33-6-19. Substitution of issue for beneficiary predeceasing testator.
When any person to whom any real or personal estate shall be devised or bequeathed for any estate or interest not determinable at or before the death of that person, shall die in the lifetime of the testator, leaving issue, and any issue of that person shall be living at the time of the death of the testator, such devise or bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect and operate as a devise or bequest from the testator to that issue, in such proportions as the estate of the devisee or legatee would go to them had he or she died intestate immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 203, § 31; G.L. 1909, ch. 254, § 31; G.L. 1923, ch. 298, § 31; G.L. 1938, ch. 566, § 30; G.L. 1956, § 33-6-19.

Structure Rhode Island General Laws

Rhode Island General Laws

Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure

Chapter 33-6 - Proof and Construction of Wills

Section 33-6-1. - Gifts to attesting witnesses.

Section 33-6-2. - Creditor attesting.

Section 33-6-3. - Death of attesting beneficiary in lifetime of testator.

Section 33-6-4. - Executor or trustee as witness.

Section 33-6-5. - Construction as to real estate within state.

Section 33-6-6. - Time from which will speaks.

Section 33-6-7. - Devise without words of limitation.

Section 33-6-8. - Devise to executor or trustee.

Section 33-6-9. - Gift for life with remainder to issue.

Section 33-6-10. - Limitation on fee tail.

Section 33-6-11. - Death of devisee in tail in lifetime of testator.

Section 33-6-12. - Commencement of income estate.

Section 33-6-13. - Apportionment on termination of income estate.

Section 33-6-14. - Suit for recovery of income from executor.

Section 33-6-15. - Interest on general pecuniary legacies.

Section 33-6-16. - Life estate or term for years in property consumed by use.

Section 33-6-17. - General devises and bequests.

Section 33-6-18. - Devise of lands of which testator is not seised.

Section 33-6-19. - Substitution of issue for beneficiary predeceasing testator.

Section 33-6-20. - Devisee or legatee predeceased without issue.

Section 33-6-21, 33-6-22. - Repealed.

Section 33-6-23. - Pretermitted issue.

Section 33-6-24. - Apportionment of share taken by pretermitted child.

Section 33-6-25. - Repealed.

Section 33-6-26. - Intent of testator as to apportionment of debts.

Section 33-6-27. - Contribution by pretermitted issue to payment of debts.

Section 33-6-28. - Death or insolvency of beneficiary liable to contribution for debts.

Section 33-6-29. - Repealed.

Section 33-6-30. - Partial intestacy.

Section 33-6-31. - Passage of title by will — Recording.

Section 33-6-32. - Filing of original wills.

Section 33-6-33. - Gifts to trustee of existing trust.