Section 554.3 - Estate of inheritance; fee tail; abolition, declaration as fee simple. - Michigan Statutes

Revised Statutes of 1846 (EXCERPT)
Chapter 62. Of The Nature And Qualities Of Estates In Real And Personal Property, And The Alienation Thereof.

554.3 Estate of inheritance; fee tail; abolition, declaration as fee simple.

Sec. 3.

All estates tail are abolished, and every estate which would be adjudged a fee tail, according to the law of the territory of Michigan, as it existed before the second day of March, 1821, shall for all purposes be adjudged a fee simple; and if no valid remainder be limited thereon, shall be a fee simple absolute.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 62 ;-- CL 1857, 2587 ;-- CL 1871, 4070 ;-- How. 5519 ;-- CL 1897, 8785 ;-- CL 1915, 11521 ;-- CL 1929, 12923 ;-- CL 1948, 554.3
Former Law: See Act of March 2, 1821; Code of 1820, p. 393; 1 Terr. Laws 815; and Revision of 1827, p. 261.