A conveyance by a tenant for life or years which purports to grant a greater estate than he possesses or can lawfully convey shall not work a forfeiture of his estate, but shall pass to the grantee all the estate which such tenant can lawfully convey.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 184, § 9
Conveyance by tenant for life or years of greater estate
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