55-12 - Fee tail converted into fee simple.
§ 55-12. Fee tail converted into fee simple.
Every estate in lands so limited that, as the law was on October 7, 1776,such estate would have been an estate tail shall be deemed an estate in feesimple; and every limitation upon such an estate shall be held valid, if thesame would be valid when limited upon an estate in fee simple created bytechnical language.
(Code 1919, § 5150.)