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Conveyance of greater estate than possessed; effect.

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MI Code › Chapter 565 › Act R-S-of-1846 › Section 565.4

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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

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