§ 35-4-3 — Fee Tail Converted into Fee Simple

Every estate in real or personal property in fee tail, now or hereafter created, becomes an estate in fee simple, and the person in whom such a conditional fee vests has the same power over the estate as in case of pure and absolute fees.

Legislative History

(Code 1852, §1300; Code 1867, §1570; Code 1876, §2179; Code 1886, §1825; Code 1896, §1021; Code 1907, §3397; Code 1923, §6901; Code 1940, T. 47, §15.)