Second Schedule. (2), Cap 45

RULES OF DISTRIBUTION. L If a woman die intestate leaving a husband the whole of the estate shall go to him. 2. If a man die intestate leaving a widow and children or issue the widow shall be entitled to one-third of the estate, and the children or issue the remaining two-thirds equally between them per stirpes. 3. If a man die leaving children or issue but no widow, the children and issue take the whole between them per stirpes. *Rules of Court have been made prescribing the fees to be paid for the administration of estates by the Official Administrator. None have been made yet to replace the Third Schedule. The First Schedule, which prescribes a form of application to the Court, and the Third Schedule, which is in the nature of Rules of Court, are for convenience printed together with the Rules about fees in the Volume containing the subsidiary legislation of the Courts Ordinance (Cap. 7). Section 19. 438 Cap. 45] Administration of Estates 4. If a man die leaving a widow but not children or issue the widow shall take one-half absolutely and the other half shall be divisible amongst his nearest relatives of next-of-kin. Relatives of the half-blood taking equally with relatives of the full blood. 5. If a man die leaving no widow or children or issue, the father will be entitled to the whole. 6. (1) If a man die leaving no widow, child, issue or father, the mother, brothers and sisters will take in equal shares. Brothers an<t sisters of the half-blood sharing equally with brothers and sisters of the full~blood. (2) If any brother or sister shall have died in the life-time of the intestate, leaving children, such children shall stand in loco parentis, provided the mother or any brother or sister be living. 7. If there be no brother or sister, nor child of such brother or sister, the mother shall take the whole. 8. If there be no mother, the brothers and sisters take equally, the children of such brothers and sisters as may be dead standing in loco parentis. 9. If there be no next-of~kin the estate shall go to the Crown.