fee-simple

  • 91fee-farm rent — The rent reserved on granting a feefarm. It might be one fourth or one third the value of the land. Fee farm rent is a rent charge issuing out of an estate in fee; a perpetual rent reserved on a conveyance in fee simple …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 92fee interest — See fee fee simple fee tail …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 93fee-farm rent — The rent reserved on granting a feefarm. It might be one fourth or one third the value of the land. Fee farm rent is a rent charge issuing out of an estate in fee; a perpetual rent reserved on a conveyance in fee simple …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 94fee interest — See fee fee simple fee tail …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 95fee — noun /fiː/ a) A monetary payment charged for professional services. b) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail) …

    Wiktionary

  • 96fee — I. n. 1. Pay (for professional service), compensation, remuneration. 2. Feud, fief, fee simple, absolute title or posession, unconditional tenure. II. v. a. Pay, reward, recompense, give a fee to …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 97Fee — ♦ A fee was an estate, sublet to a knight by a baron, bishop or abbot, tenant in chief to the king. (Wise, Terence. Medieval Warfare, 248) Related terms: Fee Simple, Fief …

    Medieval glossary

  • 98fee patent — noun : a patent for an estate in fee simple * * * fee patent, a first grant of title to public land, issued by the government to an individual with the right to sell or give it to anyone …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 99Fee tail — This was tenure of property which could be inherited by or willed to a lineal descendant only. If there were no descendants of the body upon the death of the tenant, the land reverted to the lord. Such land was thus *en tailed. Cf. Fee simple;… …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 100fee farm — A letting of lands to farm in fee simple, instead of the usual methods for life or years. See 2 Bl Comm 43. See rent charge …

    Ballentine's law dictionary