Devise of estate tail not to lapse in certain cases

Where any person to whom any real estate is devised for an estate tail or an estate in quasi entail dies in the lifetime of the testator leaving issue who would be heritable under such entail, and any such issue shall be living at the time of the death of the testator, such devise shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention appears by the will.