Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 184 § 6
Current through Chapter 223 of the 2024 Legislative Session
In a limitation of real or personal property by deed, will or other instrument in writing, executed after April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, the words "die without issue", or "die without leaving issue", or "have no issue", or "die without heirs of the body", or other words importing either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall, unless a contrary intention clearly appears by the instrument creating such limitation, mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 184, § 6