Tennessee Statutes
§ 66-1-104 — Construction of "dying without heirs."
Tennessee § 66-1-104
JurisdictionTennessee
Title66
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Bluebook
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-1-104 (2026).
Text
Every contingent limitation in any deed or will, made to depend upon the dying of any person without heir, or heirs of the body, or without issue of the body, or without children, or offspring, or descendants, or other relative, shall be a limitation to take effect when such person dies without heir, issue, child, offspring, or descendants, or other relative, as the case may be, living at the time of such person's death, or born to such person within ten (10) months thereafter; unless the intention of such limitation be otherwise expressly and plainly declared in the face of the deed or will creating it.
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Legislative History
Code 1858, § 2009 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 91, § 3); Shan., § 3675; Code 1932, § 7601; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-104.
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Estates tail abolished§ 66-1-103
Rule in Shelley's case abolished§ 66-1-107
Survivorship in joint tenancy abolished§ 66-1-108
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Doctrine of worthier title abolished§ 66-1-201
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Tennessee § 66-1-104, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/tn/66-1-104.