estate in fee-tail

  • 1estate in fee tail — See fee tail …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 2estate in fee-tail — See tail, estate in …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 3estate in fee-tail — See tail, estate in …

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  • 4fee tail — see fee 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. fee tail n. A conveyance of prop …

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  • 5Fee tail — Fee 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… …

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  • 6fee tail — n. 〚Anglo Fr fee tailé < fee (see FEE) + tailé, pp. of taillir, to cut, limit (OFr taillier): see TAILOR〛 an estate in real property which may be inherited only by a specified class of heirs …

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  • 7fee tail — n. [Anglo Fr fee tailé &LT; fee (see FEE) + tailé, pp. of taillir, to cut, limit (OFr taillier): see TAILOR] an estate in real property which may be inherited only by a specified class of heirs, usually the natural children of the owner …

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  • 8fee tail male or female — n. An estate limited to male or female lines of descent. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …

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  • 9Fee tail — Entail redirects here. For other uses, see Entail (disambiguation). Property law …

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  • 10fee tail — noun a fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away • Hypernyms: ↑fee * * * noun (plural fees tail) Etymology: Middle English fee taille, from Anglo French fé taillé, from Old French fé fee, fief +&#8230; …

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