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Statutes > Maine > Title33 > Title33ch7sec0 > Title33sec157Title 33: PROPERTY
Chapter 7: CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE
Subchapter 1: ESTATES PASSING
§157. Conveyance of greater estate, conveys only interest owned
A conveyance of a greater estate than he can lawfully convey, made by a tenant for life or years, will pass what estate he has and will not work a forfeiture, and no expectant estate can be defeated by any act of the owner of the precedent estate or by any destruction of it, except as provided in section 156.