CHAPTER 1. Creation and Limitation of Estates; their Qualities  


SECTION 55-1. Aliens may acquire, hold and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required
SECTION 55-2. When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid
SECTION 55-3. When gift of goods or chattels invalid
SECTION 55-4. Suicide or attainder
SECTION 55-5. Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery
SECTION 55-6. Same estates may be created by deed as by will
SECTION 55-7. Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary
SECTION 55-7.1. Repealed
SECTION 55-8. Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman, etc
SECTION 55-9. Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another
SECTION 55-10. Deed good for grantor's right; operation of warranty
SECTION 55-11. Grant, etc., without words of limitation
SECTION 55-12. Fee tail converted into fee simple
SECTION 55-12.1. Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities
SECTION 55-12.2. When nonvested property interest or power of appointment created
SECTION 55-12.3. Reformation
SECTION 55-12.4. Exclusions from statutory rule against perpetuities
SECTION 55-12.5. Prospective application
SECTION 55-12.6. Uniformity of application and construction
SECTION 55-13. Certain limitations construed
SECTION 55-13.1. Employee trusts
SECTION 55-13.2. Determination of "lives in being" for purpose of rule against perpetuities
SECTION 55-13.3. Application of the rule against perpetuities to nondonative transfers
SECTION 55-14. Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished
SECTION 55-14.1. Doctrine of worthier title abolished
SECTION 55-15. When contingent remainder not to fail
SECTION 55-16. When remainders not defeated
SECTION 55-17. In what conveyances possession transferred to the use
SECTION 55-17.1. Land trusts not to fail because no beneficiaries are specified by name and no duties laid on trustee; when interest of beneficiaries deemed personal property; liens
SECTION 55-18. Deed of release effectual
SECTION 55-19. Repealed
SECTION 55-19.1. Repealed
SECTION 55-19.2. Repealed
SECTION 55-19.3. Repealed
SECTION 55-19.5. Provision in certain trust void
SECTION 55-20. Survivorship between joint tenants abolished
SECTION 55-20.1. Joint ownership in real and personal property
SECTION 55-20.2. Tenants by the entireties in real and personal property; certain trusts
SECTION 55-21. Exceptions to § 55-20
SECTION 55-22. When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument
SECTION 55-23. Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact
SECTION 55-24. Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees
SECTION 55-25. Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate
SECTION 55-25.1. Repealed