Michigan Compiled Laws § 565.4 Conveyance Of Greater Estate Than Possessed; Effect.

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

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