CHAPTER 6 - ESTATES
- ARTICLE 1 - IN GENERAL
- ARTICLE 2 - FEE SIMPLE ESTATES
- § 44-6-20 - "Absolute or fee simple estate" defined
- § 44-6-21 - Words necessary to create absolute estate; preference for construing as conveyance; maker's intention controls; parol evidence
- § 44-6-22 - Creation of estate to commence in future; fee in abeyance; fee limited upon fee
- § 44-6-23 - Construction of words such as "heirs" or "heirs of body."
- § 44-6-24 - Estates tail abolished; effect of limitations which would create estate tail by implication
- § 44-6-25 - Construction and effect of limitations over after death of first taker
- ARTICLE 3 - ESTATES GRANTED UPON CONDITIONS
- § 44-6-40 - Grant of estates upon conditions
- § 44-6-41 - Conditions precedent and subsequent distinguished; preferred construction and remedy
- § 44-6-42 - Right of entry after breach of condition subsequent
- § 44-6-43 - Certain conditions void
- § 44-6-44 - Effect of legal disabilities on conditions; notice of condition
- ARTICLE 4 - REMAINDERS AND REVERSIONS
- § 44-6-60 - Nature of estates in remainder and in reversion; rights of reversioner
- § 44-6-61 - Vested and contingent remainders distinguished
- § 44-6-62 - Effect of defeat of estate on remainder
- § 44-6-63 - Interest of heirs of remainderman
- § 44-6-64 - Creation of remainders by parol
- § 44-6-65 - Creation of remainder for persons not in being; vested remainder subject to open
- § 44-6-66 - Preference for vested remainders; construction of words of survivorship in wills
- § 44-6-67 - Effect of executor's assent to legacy to life tenant on remainderman; possession at termination of life estate
- § 44-6-68 - Validity of limitations over upon marriage of widow
- ARTICLE 5 - LIFE ESTATES
- § 44-6-80 - Nature of life estates; estates during widowhood
- § 44-6-81 - Length of life estate
- § 44-6-82 - How and in what property life estate may be created
- § 44-6-83 - Rights and duties of life tenant; forfeiture of interest to remainderman
- § 44-6-84 - Ownership of increase of property
- § 44-6-85 - When life tenant entitled to emblements
- § 44-6-86 - Rights of lessee upon termination of life estate
- § 44-6-87 - Effect of purported sale of estate by life tenant
- § 44-6-88 - Demand for bond by purchaser of life estate in personalty; effect of failure to give bond
- § 44-6-89 - Removal of personalty beyond state by life tenant; forfeiture; restraint
- § 44-6-90 - Jurisdiction of judge of superior court as to life estates and contingent remainders
- ARTICLE 6 - ESTATES FOR YEARS
- § 44-6-100 - "Estate for years" defined; estate for years in lands passes as realty
- § 44-6-101 - Estate for years distinguished from contract of hiring and from landlord and tenant relationship
- § 44-6-102 - "Lease" defined; extent of interest; when mining interest passes
- § 44-6-103 - Tenant's rights and duties; grounds of forfeiture
- § 44-6-104 - Right of tenant for years to emblements
- § 44-6-105 - Liability of tenant for years for repairs and expenses
- § 44-6-106 - Dependent and independent covenants or conditions
- ARTICLE 7 - TENANCY IN COMMON
- ARTICLE 8 - JOINT TENANCY WITH SURVIVORSHIP
- ARTICLE 9 - UNIFORM STATUTORY RULE AGAINST PERPETUITIES
- § 44-6-200 - Short title
- § 44-6-201 - Validity of nonvested property interest or power of appointment
- § 44-6-202 - Time of creation of nonvested property interest or power of appointment
- § 44-6-203 - Reform of disposition by court to approximate transferor's plan of distribution
- § 44-6-204 - Exceptions to applicability of article
- § 44-6-205 - Applicability of article; court reform of nonvested dispositions created before article became effective
- § 44-6-206 - Application and construction of article