fee-simple

  • 81fee-farm — A species of tenure, where land is held of another in perpetuity at a yearly rent, without fealty, homage, or other services than such as are specially comprised in the feoffment. It corresponds very nearly to the emphyteusis of the Roman law.… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 82fee-farm — A species of tenure, where land is held of another in perpetuity at a yearly rent, without fealty, homage, or other services than such as are specially comprised in the feoffment. It corresponds very nearly to the emphyteusis of the Roman law.… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 83fee — The royalty paid for the use of a patent or copyright under license. The charge made for services of a professional man, such as a lawyer, physician, or abstracter. 1 Am J2d Abstr T § 3, the charges for the services of a public officer in his… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 84fee — Synonyms and related words: Trinkgeld, account, admission, admission fee, allowance, anchorage, assessment, bill, blackmail, blood money, bonus, bounty, bribe, brokerage, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, compensate, consideration, copyhold,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 85fee — [[t]fi[/t]] n. v. feed, fee•ing 1) a sum charged or paid, as for professional services or for a privilege: a doctor s fee; an admission fee[/ex] 2) law Law. a) an estate of inheritance, either without limitation to a particular class of heirs… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 86Fee (disambiguation) — A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for services.Fee may also refer to:* Fee simple, an estate in land in common law; see also, Fee tail, an obsolete term of art in common law * Fiefdom, in the European feudal system * Mount Fee, a… …

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  • 87fee — n. & v. n. 1 a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services. 2 money paid as part of a special transaction, for a privilege, admission to a society, etc. (enrolment fee). 3 (in pl.)… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 88fee tail — /fi ˈteɪl/ (say fee tayl) noun Law (formerly) an estate of inheritance in land with restrictions regarding the line of heirs to whom it may be willed. Compare fee simple. {Anglo French fee tailé literally, feoff limited fee (def. 4) …

  • 89fee —   n. Law, heritable estate in land.    ♦ fee simple, fee heritable without restrictions as to heirs; unconditional use.    ♦ fee tail, entailed fee …

    Dictionary of difficult words

  • 90fee farm — noun Etymology: Middle English fee ferme, from Anglo French fé ferme, from Old French fé fee, fief + ferme lease more at fee II, farm II : land held of another in fee simple subject to a perpetual fixed rent without homage, fealty, or any other… …

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