fee-tail
11fee 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) …
12fee tail — A freehold estate in which there is a fixed line of inheritable succession limited to the issue of the body of the grantee or devisee, and in which the regular and general succession of heirs at law is cut off. Coleman v. Shoemaker, 147 Kan. 689 …
13fee tail — A freehold estate in which there is a fixed line of inheritable succession limited to the issue of the body of the grantee or devisee, and in which the regular and general succession of heirs at law is cut off. Coleman v. Shoemaker, 147 Kan. 689 …
14fee tail. — See under fee (def. 4a). [1250 1300; ME < AF] * * * …
15Fee 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;… …
16fee tail — A legal or equitable estate in which lands and tenements are given to one and the heirs of his body begotten, in other words, an estate of inheritance which is to pass by lineal descent only. 19 Am J2d Est § 45. An estate resulting from the… …
17fee tail. — See under fee (def. 4a). [1250 1300; ME < AF] …
18fee tail after possibility of issue extinct — An estate which is not a conventional one, but is of the legal kind and arises when a tenant is tenant in special tail and a person from whose body the issue was to spring, dies without issue; or, having left issue, that issue becomes extinct. In …
19fee tail female — An estate tail in which the distinctive limitation is to female heirs of the donee s body. 28 Am J2d Est § 45 …
20fee tail general — An estate tail where the limitation is to the heirs of a man s body generally. 28 Am J2d Est § 45 …
