381.060 Fee simple created, when -- Possession vests in grantee

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381.060 Fee simple created, when -- Possession vests in grantee.

(1) Unless a different purpose appears by express words or necessary inference, every

estate in land created by deed or will, without words of inheritance, shall be deemed

a fee simple or such other estate as the grantor or testator had power to dispose of.

(2) All deeds of bargain and sale, deeds to stand seized to use, deeds of release and

deeds of trust, shall be held to vest the possession of the grantor in the grantee to the

extent of the estate intended to be conveyed.

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