Section 3Part 0 —
What may be devised or bequeathed by will
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It shall be lawful for every person to devise, bequeath or dispose of by that person's will, executed in manner hereinafter required, all real estate and all personal estate which that person shall be entitled to either at law or in equity at the time of that person's death, and which if not so devised, bequeathed or disposed of, would devolve upon the heir-at-law or customary heir of that person, or if that person became entitled by descent, of that person's ancestor, or upon that person's executor or administrator; and the power hereby given shall extend to estates pur autre vie, whether there shall or shall not be any special occupant thereof, and whether the same shall be freehold or of any other tenure, and whether the same shall be a corporeal or an incorporeal hereditament; and also to all contingent, executory or other future interests in any real or personal estate, whether the testator may or may not be ascertained as the person or one of the persons in whom the same respectively may become vested, and whether that person may be entitled thereto under the instrument by which the same respectively were created or under any disposition thereof by deed or will; and also to all rights of entry for conditions broken, and other rights of entry; and also to such of the same estates, interests and rights respectively, and other real and personal estate, as the testator may be entitled to at the time of that person's death, notwithstanding that that person may become entitled to the same subsequently to the execution of that person's will.