conditional fee — see fee 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
conditional fee — noun law : any fee limited upon a condition; specifically : fee simple conditional * * * conditional fee 1. A fee granted on condition, or limited to particular heirs 2. The estate of a mortgagee of land, possession of which is conditional on… … Useful english dictionary
conditional fee — A common law estate in land, otherwise known as a fee conditional or fee simple conditional, distinctive by reason of the limitation to particular heirs, exclusive of others, as a grant to a named person and the heirs of his body, or, in the case … Ballentine's law dictionary
conditional fee agreement — See contingency fee. Collins dictionary of law. W. J. Stewart. 2001. conditional fee agreement … Law dictionary
conditional fee — /kənˌdɪʃənəl ˈfi/ (say kuhn.dishuhnuhl fee) noun Law any fee simple granted with the provision for its ending on the happening or non happening of some event …
fee — n [Middle English, fief, from Old French fé fief, ultimately from a Germanic word akin to Old High German fehu cattle] 1: an inheritable freehold estate in real property; esp: fee simple compare leasehold; life estate at estate … Law dictionary
fee simple — fee sim·ple n pl fees simple [simple without limitation (as to heirs) and unrestricted (as to transfer of ownership)]: a fee that is alienable (as by deed, will, or intestacy) and of potentially indefinite duration; esp: fee simple absolute in… … Law dictionary
fee simple conditional — see fee simple Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. fee simple conditional … Law dictionary
conditional — I adjective alterable, changeable, conditioned, containing stipulations, contingent on, dependent on, depending on, depending on a future event, determined by, equivocal, granted on certain terms, hypothetical, imposing a condition, indefinite,… … Law dictionary
Fee — (f[=e]), n. [OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property, money, fief, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of property, money, arising from cattle being used in early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly consisting of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
