Pennsylvania Statutes Title 21 P.S. Deeds and Mortgages § 2. Words necessary to pass fee simple title

From and after the approval of this act, in any deed or instrument in writing for conveying or releasing land hereafter executed, unless expressly limited to a lesser estate, the words “grant and convey,” or either one of said words, shall be effective to pass to the grantee or grantees named therein a fee simple title to the premises conveyed, if the grantor or grantors possessed such a title, although there be no words of inheritance or of perpetuity in the deed.