44-6-66. Preference for vested remainders; construction of words of survivorship in wills.
The only printed version. Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
The law favors the vesting of remainders in all cases of doubt. In construing wills, words of survivorship shall refer to those survivors living at the time of the death of the testator in order to vest remainders unless a manifest intention to the contrary shall appear.