Title XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY Chapter 469 Effective - 28 Aug 2006 469.600. Doctrine of worthier title and Rule in Bingham's case abolished, effect of language describing beneficiaries. — The doctrine of worthier title and the Rule in Bingham's case is abolished as a rule of law and as a rule of construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a disposition as the transferor's 'heirs', 'heirs at law', 'next of kin', 'distributees', 'relatives', or 'family', or language of similar import does not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor. -------- (L. 2006 S.B. 892)
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