§6711. Demand for life estate
If the plaintiff claims an estate for life only in the premises and pays a sum allowed to the defendant for improvements, he or his executor or administrator, at the termination of his estate, is entitled to receive of the remainderman or reversioner the value of such improvements as they then exist; and shall have a lien therefor on the premises as if they had been mortgaged for its payment, and may keep possession until it is paid. If the parties cannot agree on the existing value, it may be settled as in case of the redemption of mortgaged real estate.
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
14 §6701. Recovery of estates by real action
14 §6702. Plaintiff must have right of entry
14 §6703. Recovery of specific or undivided part
14 §6704. Writs of possession; judgment conclusive
14 §6705. Election by plaintiff to abandon
14 §6706. Installment payments by defendant
14 §6707. Defendant's remedy if evicted
14 §6708. Commitment of waste after judgment prohibited
14 §6709. Disqualification of juror interested in similar questions