§ 33-6-9. Gift for life with remainder to issue.
Whenever a devise or bequest is made to one for life and thereafter to his or her issue in any will hereafter made, issue shall be construed to be the children of the life tenant living at his or her death, and the lineal descendants of those children as may have then died, as tenants in common, but the descendants of any deceased child taking equally amongst them the share only which their deceased parent, if then living, would have taken.
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 203, § 11; G.L. 1909, ch. 254, § 11; G.L. 1923, ch. 298, § 11; G.L. 1938, ch. 566, § 11; G.L. 1956, § 33-6-9.
Structure 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 - Repealed.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 33-6-26. - 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 33-6-30. - Partial intestacy.
Section 33-6-31. - Passage of title by will — Recording.