If any person die intestate, seized of or holding, either in possession or in right, at the time of his death, real or personal property, or money or choses in action, whether such person were a citizen of the state or not, and leave no heir capable of inheriting the same, all such property shall escheat to the state.Codes, 1857, ch. 17, art. 1; 1871, § 1844; 1880, § 881; 1892, § 1701; 1906, § 1878; Hemingway's 1917, § 1521; 1930, § 1511; 1942, § 480.
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