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2015 New York Laws
RPP - Real Property
Article 8 - (Real Property) CONVEYANCES AND MORTGAGES
247 - Conveyance by tenant for life or years of greater estate than possessed.

NY Real Prop L § 247 (2015) What's This?
  247.  Conveyance by tenant for life or years of greater estate than
  possessed.   A conveyance made by a tenant  for  life  or  years,  of  a
  greater  estate than he possesses, or can lawfully convey, does not work
  a forfeiture of his estate, but passes to the  grantee  all  the  title,
  estate or interest which such tenant can lawfully convey.

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