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  2. Old Republic International - Wikipedia

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    Old Republic International Corporation is an American property insurance and title insurance company. The company is headquartered in Chicago , Illinois . [ 2 ]

  3. Legitime - Wikipedia

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    In the Czech Republic, the nearest descendants can require 1/4 of their intestacy portion if they are of age or 3/4 of their intestacy portion if they are under age.(If a child of the deceased died before him, his children can claim forced share instead of him etc.)

  4. Intestacy - Wikipedia

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    Intestacy has a limited application in those jurisdictions that follow civil law or Roman law because the concept of a will is itself less important; the doctrine of forced heirship automatically gives a deceased person's next-of-kin title to a large part (forced estate) of the estate's property by operation of law, beyond the power of the deceased person to defeat or exceed by testamentary gift.

  5. Residuary estate - Wikipedia

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    If no such clause is present, however, the residuary estate will pass to the testator's heirs by intestacy. At common law , if the residuary estate was divided between two or more beneficiaries, and one of those beneficiaries was unable to take, the share that would have gone to that beneficiary would instead pass by intestacy, under the ...

  6. Lapse and anti-lapse - Wikipedia

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    The gift would instead revert to the residuary estate or be granted under the law of intestate succession. If the deceased beneficiary was intended to inherit part or all of the residuary estate, then that portion of the estate would pass by intestate succession, as though the testator had left no will. This rule is referred to as the doctrine ...

  7. Legal history of wills - Wikipedia

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    The ecclesiastical courts had no jurisdiction over wills of land, and the common law courts were careful to keep the ecclesiastical courts within their limits by means of prohibition. No probate of a will of land was necessary, and title to real estate by will might be made by production of the will as a document of title.

  8. Historical inheritance systems - Wikipedia

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    After 1868, it could be included in a will or testament, but if a person died intestate, it was still inherited exclusively by the eldest son. [128] In 1964, this rule of male primogeniture in cases of intestacy was finally abolished. [129]

  9. Old Republic - Wikipedia

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    Galactic Republic, also known as the Old Republic, interplanetary state in the Star Wars universe Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based in the Star Wars universe; Star Wars: The Old Republic, a comic book