Section 47Central Act
Section 47: Where intestate has left neither lineal descendant, nor father, nor mother.
Where the intestate has left neither lineal descendant, nor father, nor mother, the property shall be divided equally between his brothers and sisters and the child or children of such of them as may have died before him, such children (if more than one) taking in equal shares only the shares which their respective parents would have taken if living at the intestate’s death.
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