New Jersey § 46:3-13

§ 46:3-13.

Every deed conveying lands shall, unless an exception be made therein, be construed

to include all the estate, right, title, interest, use, possession, property, claim

and demand whatsoever, both in law and equity, of the grantor, including the fee simple

if he had such an estate, of, in and to the premises conveyed, with the appurtenances,

and the word “heirs” shall not be necessary in any deed to effect the conveyance of

the fee simple; and every deed conveying lands to executors, trustees or other fiduciaries,

in which the granting clause or habendum clause runs to the “successors and assigns”,

shall, unless other words of limitation are used, be construed as conveying the fee

simple of the grantor if he had such an estate, to the same effect as if the words

“heirs and assigns” had been used. If, in any suit to reform a deed of conveyance of lands, whether absolute or by way

of mortgage, the estate conveyed be limited to the grantee, his successors and assigns

forever, or to the grantee, his legal representatives and assigns forever, such limitation

shall, in the absence of other words in the deed clearly indicating an intention to

limit the estate to the life of the grantee, be considered as presumptive evidence

that the grantor intended thereby to convey an estate in fee simple in such lands,

notwithstanding the omission of the word “heirs” from such deed.