A conveyance made by a tenant for life or years, purporting to grant a greater estate than the tenant possesses or could lawfully convey, does not work a forfeiture of the estate of the tenant, but passes to the grantee all the estate which the tenant could lawfully convey.
ORS 93.150
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.