{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-47-4","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-4","heading":"Rule in Shelley's case, and collateral warranties, abolished.","body":"All grants or devises of an estate in lands, to any person for life and then to his heirs, shall be only an estate for life in the grantee or devisee. All collateral warranties of lands, made by any ancestor who had no estate of inheritance in the same, at the time of making such warranty, shall be void as against his heirs.","path":["TITLE 47. LAND AND LAND TITLES","CHAPTER 821*. LAND TITLES"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_821.htm#sec_47-4","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:16Z","sha256":"728dfcfc3b1d0f5cac3be3c57f2627ef1102090314a9b3c6ecb68ec01aabd1ea","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-47-3","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-47-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}