Arizona Laws 33-224. Effect of conveyance purporting to create fee tail; effect of conveyance by tenant in tail
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A. A devise, gift, grant or other conveyance which creates or transfers an estate which, at common law, would be an estate in fee tail, shall be deemed and have the effect of a conveyance in fee simple.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 33-224
- Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
B. A devise, gift, grant or other conveyance made by a person holding an estate under a conveyance which at common law would have given such person an estate in fee tail shall have effect as though such person were holding a fee simple estate.