{"data":{"id":"us-vt/27-v.s.a.-3","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"27 V.S.A. § 3","heading":"Effect of overgrant","body":"A conveyance by a tenant for life or years, purporting to grant a greater estate than he or she possessed or could lawfully convey, shall not work a forfeiture of his or her estate, but shall pass to the grantee the estate which such tenant could lawfully convey.","path":["Title 27: Property","Chapter 001: Estates in Real Property"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/27/001/00003","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:17:08Z","sha256":"16a1f0c72a8fe57f5765fec418bea8fa493f5b2075c732851b9ca6017d021443","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/27-v.s.a.-2","next":"us-vt/27-v.s.a.-4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}