Any interest in or claim to land may be conveyed to vest immediately or in the future, by writing signed and delivered; and such writing shall have the effect to transfer, according to its terms, the title of the person signing and delivering it, with all its incidents, as fully and perfectly as if it were transferred by feoffment with livery of seizin, notwithstanding there may be an adverse possession thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-1-1
Land conveyed to vest immediately or in future
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Ford v. Hegwood (1986)
Most recently applied in Estate of Smith v. Smith (In re Smith) (July 2013)
Codes, 1857, ch. 36, art. 1; 1871, § 2284; 1880, § 1187; 1892, § 2433; 1906, § 2762; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2266; 1930, § 2110; 1942, § 831.
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