Tex. Prop. Code § 5.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
FEE SIMPLE.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An estate in land that is conveyed or devised is a fee simple unless the estate is limited by express words or unless a lesser estate is conveyed or devised by construction or operation of law. Words previously necessary at common law to transfer a fee simple estate are not necessary.
(b) This section applies only to a conveyance occurring on or after February 5, 1840.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3480, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.5.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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