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  "id": "ukpga/Will4/3-4/106",
  "title": "Inheritance Act 1833",
  "long_title": "An Act for the Amendment of the Law of Inheritance.",
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  "date": "1833-08-29",
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      "heading": "Meaning of words in the Act: “Land.” “The purchaser.” “Descent.” “Descendants.” “Person last entitled.” “Assurance.” Number and gender.",
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      "heading": "Heir entitled under a will shall take as devisee, and a limitation to the grantor or his heirs shall create an estate by purchase.",
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      "heading": "Where heirs take by purchase under limitations to the heirs of their ancestor, the land shall descend as if the ancestor had been the purchaser.",
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      "path": "section/7",
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      "heading": "The male line to be preferred.",
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      "path": "section/9",
      "kind": "section",
      "number": "9",
      "heading": "Half blood, if on the part of a male ancestor, to inherit after the whole blood of the same degree; if on the part of a female ancestor, after her.",
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      "heading": "After the death of a person attainted, his descendants may inherit.",
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      "heading": "Limitations made before 1st Jan. 1834, to the heirs of a person then living, shall take effect as if the Act had not been made.",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:49:26.007039+00:00",
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