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Fee tail
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noun
1.
a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
2.
a sum paid or charged for a privilege: an admission fee.
3.
a charge allowed by law for the service of a public officer.
4.
Law.
a.
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).
b.
an inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
c.
a territory held in fee.
5.
a gratuity; tip.
verb (used with object)
6.
to give a fee to.
7.
Chiefly Scot. to hire; employ.
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| fee tail | |
| —n | |
| property law | |
| a. a freehold interest in land restricted to a particular line of heirs | |
| b. Compare fee simple an estate in land subject to such restriction | |
| [C15: from Anglo-French fee tailé fee (or fief) determined, from taillier to cut] | |
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Word Origin & History
fee
late 13c., from O.Fr. fieu, from M.L. feodum "land or other property whose use is granted in return for service," probably from Frank. *fehu-od "payment-estate," in which the first element is cognate with O.E. feoh "money, property, cattle" (also Ger. Vieh "cattle," Goth. faihu "money, fortune"), from
EXPANDPIE *peku- "cattle" (cf. Skt. pasu, Lith. pekus "cattle;" L. pecu "cattle," pecunia "money, property"); second element similar to O.E. ead "wealth." Sense of "payment for services" first recorded late 14c. Fee-simple is "absolute ownership," as opposed to fee-tail "entailed ownership," inheritance limited to some particular class of heirs (from O.Fr. taillir "to cut, to limit").
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fee tail
in feudal English law, an interest in land bound up inalienably in the grantee and then forever to his direct descendants. A basic condition of entail was that if the grantee died without direct descendants the land reverted to the grantor. The concept, feudal in origin, supported a landed aristocracy because it served to prevent the disintegration of large estates through divisible inheritance or the lack of heirs. Statutory reforms in England now permit the owner to convey the entailed land by a simple deed and even by will
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