fee-simple

  • 111a simple fee — feodum simplex, a simple or pure fee; fee simple Feodum talliatum, a fee tail. In old English law, a seigniory or jurisdiction. A fee, a perquisite or compensation for a service …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 112defeasible fee — noun An estate in land that may be divested from its current owner upon the occurrence of an event set forth by the grantor in the grant. See Also: fee simple determinable, fee simple subject to condition subsequent, fee simple subject to… …

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  • 113Tenure by fee alms — Tenure Ten ure, n. [F. tenure, OF. teneure, fr. F. tenir to hold. See {Tenable}.] 1. The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate. [1913 Webster] That the tenure of estates might rest on equity, the Indian title to lands was… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 114a pure fee — feodum simplex, a simple or pure fee; fee simple Feodum talliatum, a fee tail. In old English law, a seigniory or jurisdiction. A fee, a perquisite or compensation for a service …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 115a pure fee — feodum simplex, a simple or pure fee; fee simple Feodum talliatum, a fee tail. In old English law, a seigniory or jurisdiction. A fee, a perquisite or compensation for a service …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 116qualified fee — noun : a defeasible estate in fee that may come to an end (as for breach of a condition or on account of an executory limitation on a stated event); specifically : a base or determinable fee simple compare fee simple conditional …

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  • 117conditional 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… …

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  • 118in fee — phrasal 1. also of fee : as a feudal fee 2. also at a fee or with fee obsolete …

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  • 119Frank-fee — n. [Frank free + fee.] (Eng. Law) A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold. Burrill. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 120conditional 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