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21fee tail male — An estate tail in which the distinctive limitation is to male heirs of the donee s body. Restatement, Property § 78, Comments b, c, d; 28 Am J2d Est § 45 …
22fee tail special — See special estate tail …
23fee-tail — verb limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs • Syn: ↑entail • Hypernyms: ↑bequeath, ↑will, ↑leave • Verb Frames: Somebody s something …
24estate in fee tail — See fee tail …
25tenant in fee tail — See fee tail …
26fee — 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 …
27fee 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… …
28Fee simple — is an estate in land in common law. It is the most common way real estate is owned in common law countries, and is ordinarily the most complete ownership interest that can be had in real property short of allodial title, which is often reserved… …
29tail — 1 n [Anglo French, literally, cutting, from Old French, from taillier to cut, prune] 1: the condition of being limited or restricted by entailing a tenant in tail 2: entail (2) tail 2 adj: limited as to tenure see al …
30Fee — (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 of… …
