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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955 - SECT 44

Meaning of ""real estate'', etc.

44. For the purposes of this Act

(a)the expression "real estate" includes chattels real, and land in
possession, remainder, or reversion, and every estate or interest in or over
land (including real estate held on trust or by way of mortgage or security,
but not money to arise under a trust for sale of land, nor money secured or
charged on land) to which a deceased person was entitled at the time of his
death;

(b)an estate or interest vested on any trust in any deceased person solely
shall be deemed not to be an estate or interest as to which that person dies
intestate;

(c)the estate or interest of a deceased person in an estate tail shall be
deemed to be an estate or interest ceasing on his death, but any further or
other estate or interest of the deceased person in remainder or reversion
which is capable of being disposed of by his will shall not be deemed to be an
estate or interest so ceasing;

(d)the estate or interest of a deceased person under a joint tenancy where any
tenant survives the deceased person shall be deemed to be an estate or
interest ceasing on his death;

(e)on the death of a corporator sole his estate or interest in the
corporation's real estate shall be deemed to be an estate or interest ceasing
on his death.

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