Texas Property Code

§ 5.001 — FEE SIMPLE

PR § 5.001Title 2. CONVEYANCES · Ch. 5. CONVEYANCES · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Statute text

(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.

Legislative history

Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3480, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.