§ 33-9-29 - Descent or distribution of real estate to be recorded. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 33-9-29

   § 33-9-29  Descent or distribution of realestate to be recorded. – When the real property of any deceased person, or any part thereof or interesttherein, is devised or distributed or set out to the devisee or devisees, heiror heirs, or spouse of the decedent, or is legally divided by all the personsinterested, or descends to the heir or heirs or spouse of the decedent, theexecutor or administrator of the decedent, shall cause a certificate of descentto be recorded in the land evidence records of every city or town in which realproperty of the decedent is situated, and it shall constitute prima facieevidence of the facts stated in it, so far as those facts affect real estate ofthe decedent.