Davis v. . Duke

That the Act of 1766, appointing a method of distributing intestates' estates, was intended to produce the most perfect equality among the children, with respect to the distribution of their intestate father's estate. With this view, the material parts of the statutes of 22 and 23 Car., 2, and 1 Jac., 2, are incorporated into it. Whatever construction, therefore, is correct, in relation to those statutes, must be so with respect to this act, which has taken them for its basis, and which has even literally followed such of their provisions as affect this case. The law declares that no child…