fee simple
See under fee (def. 4a).
Origin of fee simple
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How to use fee simple in a sentence
The wealth which was collected within five miles of the Stadthouse of Amsterdam would purchase the fee simple of Scotland.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayI will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail.
Richard Carvel, Complete | Winston ChurchillI seemed to have purchased the fee simple of his good graces by my flattery.
Mine host, mine host, we lay all night at the George in Waltham; but whether the George be your fee-simple or no, 'tis a question.
An estate-tail is, by the origin of the word, cut or carved (taill) out of the fee-simple.
British Dictionary definitions for fee simple
property law an absolute interest in land over which the holder has complete freedom of disposition during his life: Compare fee tail
Origin of fee simple
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