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Base-estate

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Base fee

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over

over : based on the termination or failure of a prior estate [a limitation ] see also gift over at gift

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Copyhold

changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth. A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes of a manor held at the lord's will, and according to the … of the subject in examining titles. In the previous edition of this work, copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the

Tail

fee-simple in the property to another person and his heirs without barring the entail, only a qualified or base fee will pass, com-mensurate with the estate-tail, capable, however, of being rendered absolute by barring the entail, but

Conditional fee

gives a name to this estate, and ascertains its determination. A fee qualified is frequently called a fee base, i.e., impure, defective, and circumscribed. There is hardly any event, provided it be lawful, and do not violate

Remainder

contingent remainders to their pristine vigour although the Act had abolished real actions on which they were largely based. This Act, however, provided that the accidental determination by forfeiture, surrender or merger of a preceding estate of

Settled land

in possession (a) in tail, (b) for a legal estate subject to a limitation over, (c) for a base or determinable fee, or corresponding interest in leasehold land, (d) being an infant, for a legal estate, or

Fee

FEES. Also an estate of inheritance divided into there species: (1) fee-simple absolute; (2) qualified or conditional or base fee, including (3) fee-tail, formerly fee-conditional. By the (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925, s. 1, a fee-simple

Priority

of an estate in remainder or reversion were transformed into legal mortgages. Consequently the former rules of equity, based on the rule of equity 'qui prior in tempore potior est in jure' ceased to apply. Priority among

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