Massachusetts Statutes

§ 9 — Conveyance by tenant for life or years of greater estate

Massachusetts·Part II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS·Title I TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY·Ch. 184 GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO REAL PROPERTY
Section 9. A conveyance by a tenant for life or years which purports to grant a greater estate than he possesses or can lawfully convey shall not work a forfeiture of his estate, but shall pass to the grantee all the estate which such tenant can lawfully convey.

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