Section 35-4-2 Estate taken as fee simple unless expressly limited. - Alabama Statutes

Section 35-4-2

Estate taken as fee simple unless expressly limited.

Every estate in lands is to be taken as a fee simple, although the words necessary to create an estate of inheritance are not used, unless it clearly appears that a less estate was intended.

(Code 1852, §1299; Code 1867, §1569; Code 1876, §2178; Code 1886, §1824; Code 1896, §1020; Code 1907, §3396; Code 1923, §6900; Code 1940, T. 47, §14.)