§ 4. Right of entry for survey
§ 4. Right of entry for survey In cases wherein the title to lands, tenements, or hereditaments may come in question, or in order to establish boundaries between abutting parcels, a licensed surveyor with the necessary assistants employed by any of the parties to such disputed title, may enter upon such lands or real estate […]
§ 101. Definition; exemption from attachment and execution
§ 101. Definition; exemption from attachment and execution The homestead of a natural person consisting of a dwelling house, outbuildings, and the land used in connection therewith, not exceeding $125,000.00 in value, and owned and used or kept by such person as a homestead together with the rents, issues, profits, and products thereof, shall be […]
§ 102. Designating homestead in case of levy
§ 102. Designating homestead in case of levy When an execution is levied upon real estate of the person of which a homestead is a part or upon that part of a homestead in excess of the limitation of $125,000.00 in value, that person may designate and choose the part thereof, not exceeding the limited […]
§ 103. When real estate mortgaged
§ 103. When real estate mortgaged At the time of such levy of execution, if such homestead or real estate is encumbered by mortgage, the value and location of the homestead shall be fixed as provided in section 102 of this title and thereupon the sale shall proceed in the same manner as when a […]
§ 104. Products of homestead
§ 104. Products of homestead When the personal property of such person is attached or taken on execution against him or her and the debtor therein claims that the same or a part thereof is the product of such homestead, appraisers shall be appointed and sworn as provided in section 102 of this title. They […]
§ 1. Estate in fee tail abolished
§ 1. Estate in fee tail abolished Where, by the common law, a person might become seised in fee tail of lands by virtue of a devise, gift, grant, or other conveyance, or by other means, such person, instead of being seised thereof in fee tail, shall be seised thereof in fee simple. This section […]
§ 2. Estate in common preferred to joint tenancy; joint tenancy with unequal shares
§ 2. Estate in common preferred to joint tenancy; joint tenancy with unequal shares (a) Conveyances and devises of lands, whether for years, for life or in fee, made to two or more persons, shall be construed to create estates in common and not in joint tenancy, unless it is expressed therein that the grantees […]
§ 3. Effect of overgrant
§ 3. Effect of overgrant A conveyance by a tenant for life or years, purporting to grant a greater estate than he or she possessed or could lawfully convey, shall not work a forfeiture of his or her estate, but shall pass to the grantee the estate which such tenant could lawfully convey.