17Base fee when united to immediate reversion enlarged instead of being merged

17 Base fee when united to immediate reversion enlarged instead of being merged

*[Section 17 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]*If a base fee in any lands, and the remainder or reversion in fee in the same lands, shall, at any time, be united in the same person, and there shall be no intermediate estate between the base fee and the remainder or reversion, the base fee shall not merge, but shall be ipso facto enlarged into as large an estate as the tenant in tail, with the consent of the protector, if any, might have created by any disposition under this Act if such remainder or reversion had been vested in any other person.