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Mississippi Code 1972
Title 89 - REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTYChapter 1 - LAND AND CONVEYANCES
IN GENERAL
Section 89-1-15 - Estates in fee tail prohibited

Miss. Code § 89-1-15

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Section 89-1-15 - Estates in fee tail prohibited

Estates in fee tail are prohibited; and every estate which, but for this statute, would be an estate in fee tail, shall be an estate in fee simple; but any person may make a conveyance or a devise of lands to a succession of donees then living, and upon the death of the last of said successors to any person or any heir.

Miss. Code § 89-1-15

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 42, art. 1 (24); 1857, ch. 36, art. 3; 1871, § 2286; 1880, § 1190; 1892, § 2436; 1906, § 2765; Hemingway's 1917, § 2269; 1930, § 2117; 1942, § 838.