conditional fee
1Conditional fee — may refer to: In the United States, a conditional fee is a reference to a future interest in real property. In English law, a conditional fee is the fee payable to a lawyer. Also known as no win no fee agreements similar to United States… …
2conditional fee — see fee 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
3conditional 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… …
4conditional 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 …
5conditional fee agreement — See contingency fee. Collins dictionary of law. W. J. Stewart. 2001. conditional fee agreement …
6conditional 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 …
7fee — 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 …
8fee 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… …
9fee simple conditional — see fee simple Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. fee simple conditional …
10conditional — 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,… …
