Sec. 5.001. FEE SIMPLE.
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Sec. 5.001. FEE SIMPLE.
(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.