256A voidable estate by a tenant in tail in favour of a purchaser

256 A voidable estate by a tenant in tail in favour of a purchaser When a tenant in tail of land under a settlement has already created or hereafter creates in such land or any part thereof a voidable estate in favour of a purchaser for valuable consideration, and afterwards under this Part by any assurance other than a lease not requiring acknowledgment makes a disposition of the land in which such voidable estate is created or any part thereof, such disposition (whatever its object may be and whatever may be the extent of the estate intended to be thereby created) shall have the effect of confirming such voidable estate in the land thereby disposed of to its full extent as against all persons except those whose rights are saved by this Part: Provided always that if such disposition is made to a purchaser for valuable consideration who has not express notice of the voidable estate, then and in such case the voidable estate shall not be confirmed as against such purchaser and the persons claiming under him. No. 3754 s. 256.