Power to dispose of all kinds of property

(1) A person may devise, bequeath or dispose of by his will, executed in manner hereinafter required, all real estate and all 7 personal estate to which he is entitled, either at law or in equity, at the time of his death, the residue of which if not so devised, bequeathed or disposed of would be distributable in the manner, or be held on the trusts, mentioned in any Act relating to the administration of the estates of deceased (2) The power hereby given shall extend also, (a) to estates pur autre vie, whether there is or is not any special occupant thereof, and whether it is freehold or of any other tenure, or is a corporeal or an incorporeal hereditament; (b) to an absolute or contingent, executory or other future interest in any real or personal estate, or is in possession, remainder or reversion, whether the testator is or is not ascertained as the person or one of the persons in whom it respectively may become vested, and whether he is entitled thereto under the instrument by which it respectively was created, or under any disposition thereof by deed or will; (c) to all rights of entry for conditions broken and other rights of entry; and (d) to such of the same estates, interests and rights respectively, and other real and personal estate as the testator is entitled to at the time of his death, notwithstanding that he has become entitled to it subsequently to the execution of his will. (3) This section shall, without prejudice to the rights and interests of a personal representative, authorise, and be deemed always to have authorised, any person to dispose of real property or chattels real by will, notwithstanding that by reason 8 of illegitimacy or otherwise he did not leave next-of-kin surviving him.