MS Const., Article 14, Section 269

Every devise or bequest of lands, tenemants, or hereditaments, or any interest therein, of freehold or less than freehold, either present or future, vested or contingent, or of any money directed to be raised by the sale therof, contained in any last will and testament, or codicil, or other testamentary writing, in favor of any religious or ecclesiastical corporation, sole or aggregate, or any religious or ecclesiastical society, or to any religious denomination or association or persons, or to any person or body politic, in trust, either express or implied, secret or resulting, either for the use and benefit of such religious corporation, society, denomination, or association, or for the purpose of being given or appropriated to charitable uses or purposes, shall be null and void, and the heir at law shall take the same property so devised or bequeathed, as though no testamentary disposition had been made.” The repeal of Section 269 was proposed by a concurrent resolution passed at the 1938 Extraordinary Session of the Legislature, and upon ratification of the proposal by the electorate on November 7, 1939, the repeal became effective by virtue of Laws 1940, ch 325.