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all the devisees or legatees, in proportion to the value of the estate they may respectively receive under the will, unless the obvious intention of the testator, in relation to some specific devise or bequest, or other provision in the will, would thereby be defeated, in which case such specific devise, legacy, or provision, may be exempted from such apportionment, and a different apportionment may be adopted, in the discretion of the probate court.

Sect. 29. When a devise or legacy shall be made to any child or other relation of the testator, and the devisee or legatee shall die before the testator, leaving issue who shall survive the testator, such issue shall take the estate so given by the will, in the same manner as the devišee or legatee would have done if he had survived the testator, unless a different disposition shall be made or directed by the will.

Sect. 30. All the estate of the testator, real and personal, not exempt from execution by law, shall be liable to be disposed of for the payment of his debts and the expenses of administering his estate, and the probate court may make such reasonable allowance as may be judged necessary for the expenses of the maintenance of the widow and minor children, or either, constituting the family of the testator, out of his personal estate or the income of his real estate, during the progress of the settlement of the estate, but never for a longer period than until their shares in the estate shall be assigned to them.

Sect. 31. If the testator shall make provisions by his will, or designate the estate to be appropriated for the payment of his debts, the expenses of administration, or family expenses, they shall be paid according to the provisions of the will, and out of the estate thus appropriated, or so far as the same may be sufficient.

Sect. 32. If the provisions made by the will, or the estate appropriated shall not be sufficient to pay the debts, expenses of administration, and family expenses, such part of the estate, real or personal, as shall not have been disposed of by the will, if any, shall be appropriated according to the provisions of the law for that purpose.

Sect. 33. The estate, real or personal, given by will to any devisees or legatees, not exempt from execution by law, shall be held liable to the payment of the debts, expenses of