Section 1-209 - Issue. - Maryland Statutes

§ 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.]