Section 27: Persons held for purpose of succession to be similarly related to deceased
The Succession Act · Federal Acts · Part IV · in_force
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For the purpose of succession, there is no distinction ― (a) between those who are related to a person deceased through his father, and those who are related to him through his mother; or (b) between those who are related to a person deceased by the full blood, and those who are related to him by the half blood; or (c) between those who were actually born in the lifetime of a person deceased and those who at the date of his death were only conceived in the womb, but who have been subsequently born alive.
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