Worthier-title doctrine abolished.

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The doctrine of worthier-title is abolished as a rule of law and as a rule of construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a disposition as the transferor's "heirs", "heirs at law", "next of kin", "distributees", "relatives", or "family", or language of similar import, does not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor.

Source: L. 94: Entire part R&RE, p. 1022, § 3, effective July 1, 1995.


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