Sec. 5. A conveyance made by a tenant for life or years that purports to grant or convey a greater estate than the tenant possesses or can lawfully convey:

(1) does not result in a forfeiture of the tenants’s estate; and

(2) passes to the grantee or alienee all the estate that the tenant may lawfully convey.

[Pre-2002 Recodification Citation: 32-1-2-36.]

As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.2.