Section 3

“child” means a legitimate child and where the deceased is permitted by his personal law a plurality of wives includes a child by any of such wives and includes any child adopted or registered as such under any written law for the being in force in Sabah ;

“intestate” includes any person who leaves a will but dies intestate as to some beneficial interest in his property;

“issue” includes children and the descendants of deceased children;

“next-of-kin” means the next-of-kin (other than a descendant) computed according to the table of consanguinity in the Schedule;

“personal chattels” mean horses, stable furniture and effects (not used for business purposes), motor cars and accessories (not used for business purposes), garden effects, domestic animals, plate, plated articles, linen, china, glass, books, pictures, prints, furniture, jewellery, articles of household or personal use or ornament, musical and scientific instruments and apparatus, wines, liquors and consumable stores, but do not include any chattels used at the death of the intestate for business purposes nor money or securities for money.

Law regulating distribution.