Interpretation

In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires, “personal estate” includes leasehold estates and other chattels real, and also monies, shares of government and other funds, securities for money not being real estates, debts, choses in action, rights, credits, goods and all other property whatever, except real estate, which at common law devolves upon the executor or administrator, and to any share or interest therein; “real includes messuages, lands, rents and hereditaments, whether freehold or other lawful tenure, and whether corporeal or incorporeal, and any undivided share thereof, and any estate, right or interest, other than a chattel interest, therein; “will” includes a testament, codicil, appointment by will or by writing in the nature of a will in exercise of a power, disposition by will and testament or devise of the custody and tuition of any child, and any other testamentary disposition.