State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Maryland > Estates-and-trusts > Title-1 > Subtitle-2 > 1-209§ 1-209. Issue.
(a) In construing all provisions of the estates of decedents law and, unless a contrary intention is indicated, in construing the terms of a will, issue means every living lineal descendant except a lineal descendant of a living lineal descendant.
(b) A person who is treated as a child of a person pursuant to §§ 1-205 through 1-208 shall be considered for all purposes as:
(1) A lineal descendant of the person; and
(2) Subject to the exception in the first sentence of this section, a lineal descendant of all persons of whom the person is a lineal descendant.
[An. Code 1957, art. 93, § 1-209; 1974, ch. 11, § 2; 1980, ch. 117.]
