Section 91-1-11 - Personal estate to descend as real estate(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, when any person shall die possessed of goods and chattels or personal estate not bequeathed, the same shall descend to and be distributed among his or her heirs in the same manner that real estate not devised descends.(2) When any person shall die possessed of goods and chattels or personal estate not bequeathed, the provisions of Section 1 of this act are applicable in determining whether a child of a decedent is living at the time of the decedent's death.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 44, art. 2 (52); 1857, ch. 60, art. 111; 1871, § 1951; 1880, § 1273; 1892, § 1547; 1906, § 1653; Hemingway's 1917, § 1385; 1930, § 1406; 1942, § 472.Amended by Laws, 2024, ch. 524, HB 1542,§ 2, eff. 5/13/2024.