§ 33-7-20 - Order approving foreign will – Effect on real estate titles. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 33-7-20

   § 33-7-20  Order approving foreign will– Effect on real estate titles. – If, at the hearing, no sufficient cause is shown to the contrary, the court mayorder the copy to be placed on file and recorded; provided, however, that, asto real estate in towns other than that in which the copy is filed andrecorded, the title shall not pass, for the purposes of conveyance by thedevisee, until a certified copy is recorded in the records of land evidence inany other town or city in which any real estate is situated; and provided,further, that when any copy is duly filed and recorded as aforesaid, title tolands devised by the will shall relate back to the death of the testator.