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Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That in all cases of proprietors in this State dying intestate, when there shall be a widow, and no child, or children, or decendants of a child or children of the intestates, then the whole of the real and personal
^estate^ of such persons dying intestate shall go to such widow as her exclusive estate forever,
subject to her entire and absolute disposition and control to be governed in all respects
by the same rules and regulations as are or may be provided in cases of estates of
feme sole
Sec. 2. That in all cases when a feme covert shall die intestate, leaving estate either real or personal in this State, and when there shall be no child or children, or decendants of a child or children of the intestate, thin the whole of the real and personal estate of such person dying intestate shall go
to the husband of such intestate as his exclusive estate forever.
Sec 3 That so much of the forty third section of the act to which this is an amendment
as is repugnant to the provisions of this act be and the same is hereby repealed
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A Bill For an act to amend an act entitled “An act relative to wills and Testaments[,] Executors and Administrators and the settlement of estates[”] Approved Jany[January] 23, 1829
A Bill For an act to amend an act entitled “An act relative to wills and Testaments[,] Executors and Administrators and the settlement of estates[”] Approved Jany[January] 23, 1829
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1Abner Greer introduced SB 90 in the Senate on January 16, 1839. On January 21, the Senate referred the bill to the Committee
on the Judiciary. The Committee on the Judiciary reported back the bill on January
23 with amendments, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended
on January 25. On February 6, the House of Representatives refused to order the bill to a third reading.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3, 1838 (Vandalia,IL: William Walters, 1838), 287, 321, 353-54; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL; William Walters, 1838), 178-79, 199, 210, 225-26, 290.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 402, SB 90, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives [Springfield, IL] ,