administer the estate or any part of the estate of a deceased person; (s) “probate” means the grant by a court of competent jurisdiction authorising the executor named in the testator’s last will to administer the testator’s estate; (t) “residential holding” has the meaning assigned to it by section 26; (u) “senior wife”, in the case of a polygamous marriage, means the wife who was married first in time to the deceased intestate; (v) “son” includes a stepson, an illegitimate son and a son adopted in a manner recognised as lawful by the law of Uganda; (w) “wife” 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. 3. Interests and powers not acquired nor lost by marriage. No person shall, by marriage, acquire any interest in the property of the person whom he or she marries, nor become incapable of doing any act in respect of his or her own property which he or she could have done if unmarried. PART II—DOMICILE. 4. Succession to a deceased person’s immovable and movable property. (1) Succession to the immovable property in Uganda of a person deceased is regulated by the law of Uganda, wherever that person may have had his or her domicile at the time of his or her death. (2) Succession to the movable property of a person deceased is regulated by the law of the country in which that person had his or her domicile at the time of his or her death. (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a person dying intestate shall be deemed to have had his or her domicile in Uganda if—

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