(2) For the purpose of ascertaining in what degree of kindred any collateral relative stands to a person deceased, it is proper to reckon upwards from the person deceased, to the common stock, and then downwards to the collateral relative, allowing a degree for each person, both ascending and descending. 22. Persons held for the purpose of succession to be similarly related to the deceased. For the purposes of succession, there is no distinction between those who are— (a) related to the deceased by the full blood and those who are related to the deceased by the half blood; or (b) born during the deceased’s lifetime and those who are conceived in the womb at the date of death and subsequently born alive. 23. Mode of computing degrees of kindred. (1) In the table of kindred in the First Schedule to this Act, the degrees are computed as far as the sixth, and are marked by numeral figures. (2) The person whose relatives are to be reckoned and his cousingerman or first cousin are, as shown in the table, related in the fourth degree, there being one degree of ascent to the father, and another to the common ancestor, the grandfather, and from him one of descent to the uncle, and another to the cousin-german, making in all four degrees. (3) A grandson of the brother and a son of the uncle, that is, a greatnephew and cousin-german, are in equal degree, being each four degrees removed. (4) A grandson of a cousin-german is in the same degree as the grandson of a great-uncle, for they are both in the sixth degree of kindred. PART IV—INTESTACY. 24. Property of a deceased dying intestate. A person dies intestate in respect of all property which has not been disposed of by a valid testamentary disposition.