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2022 Code of Alabama
Title 35 - Property.
Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.
Article 9 - Rule in Shelley's Case.
Section 35-4-232 - Conveyance of Greater Estate by Tenant for Life or Years Passes His Estate.
Universal Citation: AL Code § 35-4-232 (2022)
Section 35-4-232
Conveyance of greater estate by tenant for life or years passes his estate.
A conveyance made by a tenant for life or years, purporting to convey a greater interest than he possesses or can lawfully convey, does not work a forfeiture of his estate but passes to the grantee all the estate which the tenant could lawfully convey.
(Code 1852, §1317; Code 1867, §1587; Code 1876, §2196; Code 1886, §1842; Code 1896, §1036; Code 1907, §3405; Code 1923, §6909; Code 1940, T. 47, §143.)
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