57-1-4 — Attempted conveyance of more than grantor owns -- Effect.


     57-1-4.   Attempted conveyance of more than grantor owns -- Effect.
     A conveyance made by an owner of an estate for life or years, purporting to convey a greater estate than he could lawfully transfer, does not work a forfeiture of his estate, but passes to the grantee all the estate which the grantor could lawfully transfer.

No Change Since 1953