If a life estate is terminated by the act of someone other than the tenant for life, the tenant and his legal representative shall be entitled to emblements, which are the profits of the crop sowed by him during life, whether the plants are annual or perennial.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2237; Code 1868, § 2231; Code 1873, § 2257; Code 1882, § 2257; Civil Code 1895, § 3092; Civil Code 1910, § 3668; Code 1933, § 85-606.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 21 Am. Jur. 2d, Crops, §§ 20, 22, 23, 25.
C.J.S.- 31 C.J.S., Estates, §§ 40, 48, 49.
ALR.
- Duty as to chattels or harvested crops left on land by predecessor in possession, 27 A.L.R. 68.
Rights and duties of life tenant and remainderman (income and corpus) with respect to repairs and improvements, 175 A.L.R. 1434.
Rights in growing, unmatured annual crops as between personal representatives of decedent's estate and heirs or devisees, 92 A.L.R.2d 1373.
Rights in respect of crops as between estate of life tenant and remainderman, 47 A.L.R.3d 784.