Tennessee § 32-3-104 - Death of class member before time of enjoyment.

§ 32-3-104. Death of class member before time of enjoyment.

Where a bequest, devise, conveyance, transfer or gift is made to a class of persons subject to fluctuation by increase or diminution of its number in consequence of future births or deaths, and the time of payment, distribution, vestiture or enjoyment is fixed at a subsequent period or on the happening of a future event, and any member of the class dies before the arrival of that period or the happening of that event, and has issue surviving when the period arrives or the event happens, that issue shall take the share of the property that the member so dying would take if living, unless a clear intention to the contrary is manifested by the will, deed or other instrument. Acts 1927, ch. 13, § 1; mod. Code 1932, §§ 7598, 8092; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-305. Cross-References. Representation to be per stirpes, § 31-2-106 . Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), §§ 174, 448. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 25 Tenn. Juris., Wills, § 117. Law Reviews. Class Gifts of Future Interests: When is Survival Required? (Herman L. Trautman), 20 Vand. L. Rev. 1 (1967). Decedents' Estates, Trusts and Future Interests — 1959 Tennessee Survey (Herman L. Trautman), 12 Vand. L. Rev. 1157 (1959). Decedents' Estates, Trusts and Future Interests — 1960 Tennessee Survey (Herman L. Trautman), 13 Vand. L. Rev. 1101 (1960). Decedents' Estates, Trusts and Future Interests — 1961 Tennessee Survey (Herman L. Trautman), 14 Vand. L. Rev. 1253 (1961). Has Tennessee Abolished Its Ancient Class Gift Doctrine Or Only Modified It?, 7 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 129 (1977). History of the Class Doctrine in Tennessee, 12 Tenn. L. Rev. 115 (1934). Real Property — Future Interests — Tennessee Class Doctrine Reburied, 34 Tenn. L. Rev. 326 (1967). Real Property — 1955 Tennessee Survey (Wade H. Sides, Jr.), 8 Vand. L. Rev. 1110 (1955). Some Whys and Wherefores of Will-Drafting — Revised (Robert L. McMurray), 15 No. 2 Tenn. B.J. 2 (1979). Survey of Tennessee Property Law, II. Estates in General (Toxey H. Sewell), 46 Tenn. L. Rev. 161 (1979). Testamentary Gifts of Future Interests: Is There an “Immediate” Problem with the Tennessee Antilapse Statute?, 17 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 263 (1987). The Rule Against Perpetuities, 21 Tenn. L. Rev. 641 (1950). The Tennessee Class Doctrine: A Spectre At The Bar, 22 Tenn. L. Rev. 943 (1951). Wills, Trusts and Estates — 1957 Tennessee Survey (Herman L. Trautman), 10 Vand. L. Rev. 1238 (1957).