Section XXVII. And it is hereby enacted, that where any person to whom any real estate shall be devised for an esta

XXVII. And it is hereby enacted, that where any person to whom any real estate shall be devised for an estate in quasi entail, shall die in the life time of the testator, leaving issue who would be inheritable 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 shall appear by the will.