substantially dependent on the deceased for the provision of the ordinary necessaries of life suitable to a person of his or her station; (h) “executor” means a person appointed in the last will of a deceased person to execute the terms of the will; (i) “grandchild” means a son or daughter of a son or daughter; (j) “grandparent” means a parent of a parent; (k) “husband” means a person who at the time of the intestate’s death was— (i) validly married to the deceased according to the laws of Uganda; or (ii) married to the deceased in another country by a marriage recognised as valid by any foreign law under which the marriage was celebrated; (l) “illegitimate child” means an illegitimate child recognised or accepted by the deceased as a child of his or her own; (m) “immovable property” includes land, incorporeal tenements and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to things attached to the earth; (n) “legal heir” means the living relative nearest in degree to an intestate under the provisions set out in Part III to this Act together with and as varied by the following provisions— (i) between kindred of the same degree a lineal descendant shall be preferred to a lineal ancestor and a lineal ancestor shall be preferred to a collateral relative and a paternal ancestor shall be preferred to a maternal ancestor; (ii) where there is equality under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, a male shall be preferred to a female; (iii) where there is equality under subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, the elder shall be preferred to the younger; (iv) if no legal heir is existing and reasonably ascertainable under subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, the husband or the senior wife of the intestate, as the case may be, shall be the legal heir; (o) “minor” means any person who has not attained the age of twenty-one years, and “minority” means the status of such person; (p) “movable property” means property of every description except “immovable property”; (q) “parent” includes a stepparent and an adoptive parent; (r) “personal representative” means the person appointed by law to

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