2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 565 - CONVEYANCES OF REAL PROPERTY
R.S. of 1846 - Revised Statutes of 1846 (565.1 - 565.49)
R-S-1846-565-1-65 - CHAPTER 65 CHAPTER 65. OF ALIENATION BY DEED, AND THE PROOF AND RECORDING OF CONVEYANCES, AND THE CANCELING OF MORTGAGES. (565.1...565.49)
Section 565.4 - Conveyance of greater estate than possessed; effect.

Sec. 4.

A conveyance made by a tenant for life or years, purporting to grant a greater estate than he possessed or could lawfully convey, shall not work a forfeiture of his estate, but shall pass to the grantee all the estate which such tenant could lawfully convey.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 65 ;-- CL 1857, 2723 ;-- CL 1871, 4206 ;-- How. 5654 ;-- CL 1897, 8958 ;-- CL 1915, 11690 ;-- CL 1929, 13280 ;-- CL 1948, 565.4