General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 542
iii-xxiii, 270, xxxix, 1943 p. ; 25 cm.View a full description of this legislative document.
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Ch. 198 58TH LEGISLATURE-REGULAR SESSION
qualify as provided and required by Article 1813 of the Revised Civil Stat-
utes of Texas of 1925, as amended.
Sec. 6. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any
moneys in the State Treasury such sums of money as shall be necessary
to put into effect the provisions of this Act. The salaries of the judges are
authorized to be as fixed in said Appropriations Bill, and the employees to
be employed and the salaries to be paid such employees, in addition to said
judges, are likewise authorized to be fixed and determined in the Appropri-
ations Bill; and provision shall be made therein for such records, supplies
and other necessary items that shall be required for the effective operation
of said Court.
Sec. 7. The excessive number of cases on the dockets of the First,
Fourth and Fifth Supreme Judicial Districts of Texas and the tremendous
increase in litigation in these three (3) Districts, causing an impossible
workload on the judges thereof, together with the crowded condition in the
House Calendar, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity
that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days
in each House, and the Constitutional Rule that bills shall not be effective
until ninety (90) days after the adjournment of the Legislature, be sus-
pended, and said Rules are hereby suspended, and this Act shall take
effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Passed the House, April 2, 1963, by a non-record vote; House concurred
in Senate amendments, May 8, 1963, by a non-record vote; passed the
Senate, as amended, May 7, 1963: Yeas 25, Nays 6.
Approved May 21, 1963.
Effective 90 days after May 24, 1963, date of adjournment.
RULE IN SHELLEY'S CASE-ABOLITION
CHAPTER 199 38
H. B. No. 105
An Act abolishing The Rule in Shelley's Case, The Rule Forbidding a Remainder
to the Grantor's Heirs, and the Doctrine of Worthier Title; and declaring
an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. The rules of the common law known as The Rule in Shel-
ley's Case, the Rule Forbidding a Remainder to the Grantor's Heirs, and
The Doctrine of Worthier Title are hereby declared to be no longer opera-
tive in this State. If, in any deed, will, or other conveyance of real or
personal property in this State, an interest is limited, mediately or imme-
diately, to any particular person or persons, or to any such class as the
heirs, heirs of the body, issue, or next of kin of the conveyor or of any
person to whom a particular interest in the same property is limited, such
conveyance shall be given effect according to the intention of the con-
veyor. No person's claim of right to take or share in such interest as a
conveyee shall be affected hy such person's status as heir or next of kin
of the conveyor. No person shall be denied the right to take or share
in such interest as a conveyance merely by reason of the fact that such
38. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 1291a.
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