If a tenant for life or lives be impleaded concerning the land holden, the person to whom the reversion or remainder belongs may come into court at any time before judgment, and shall be admitted to defend his right.Codes, 1880, § 2516; 1892, § 1631; 1906, § 1806; Hemingway's 1917, § 1439; 1930, § 1432; 1942, § 783.
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