Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
PROPERTY CODE |
Title 2. CONVEYANCES |
Chapter 5. CONVEYANCES |
Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Sec. 5.001. FEE SIMPLE
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(a) An estate in land that is conveyed or devised is a fee simple unless the estate is limited by express words or unless a lesser estate is conveyed or devised by construction or operation of law. Words previously necessary at common law to transfer a fee simple estate are not necessary.
(b) This section applies only to a conveyance occurring on or after February 5, 1840.
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3480, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.