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The Statute of Distribution (22 & 23 Car 2 c 10) was an Act of the Parliament of England in 1670. It deals with the administration of intestate estates. It was made perpetual by Administration of Intestates' Estate Act 1685 (1 Ja. 2 c. 17).
The whole Act, so far as it applied to deaths occurring after the commencement of the Administration of Estates Act 1925 , was repealed by section 56 of, and Part I of Schedule 2 to, the Administration of Estates Act 1925.
For the construction of references to Statutes of Distribution, see section 50 of the Administration of Estates Act 1925 and section 19 of the Administration of Estates Act (Northern Ireland) 1955.
Usage examples of "statute of distribution".
And with respect to the first, I proposed to abolish the law of primogeniture, and to make real estate descendible in parcenary to the next of kin, as personal property is by the statute of distribution.