Section 35-4-231 Character of estate pur autre vie. - Alabama Statutes

Section 35-4-231

Character of estate pur autre vie.

An estate during the life of a third person, whether limited to his heirs or otherwise, is a freehold only during the life of the grantee or devisee; but after his death it is a chattel real.

(Code 1852, §1594; Code 1867, §1915; Code 1876, §2279; Code 1886, §1950; Code 1896, §4246; Code 1907, §3404; Code 1923, §6908; Code 1940, T. 47, §142.)