2010 Maine Code
TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Chapter 205: LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
14 §809. Death of tenant in tail or remainderman before end of limitation


14 ME Rev Stat § 809 (2010 through 124th Legis) What's This?

Part 2: PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL

Subchapter 2: REAL ACTIONS

§809. Death of tenant in tail or remainderman before end of limitation

When a tenant in tail or a remainderman in tail dies before the expiration of the period limited for making an entry or bringing an action for lands, no person claiming any estate which such tenant in tail or remainderman might have barred shall make an entry or bring an action to recover such land, except within the period during which the tenant in tail or remainderman, if he had so long lived, might have done it.

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