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2013 Mississippi Code
Title 89 - REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
Chapter 1 - LAND AND CONVEYANCES
IN GENERAL
§ 89-1-5 - Words of inheritance not necessary
MS Code § 89-1-5 (2013) What's This?
Every estate in lands granted, conveyed, or devised, although the words deemed necessary by the common law to transfer an estate of inheritance be not added, shall be deemed a fee-simple if a less estate be not limited by express words, or unless it clearly appear from the conveyance or will that a less estate was intended to be passed thereby.
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