Determinable Fee - Law Dictionary Search Results

of reverter :a future interest in property that is retained by the grantor of a conditional fee or determinable fee and by which property reverts to the grantor upon the occurrence of a particular event or fulfillment of

Licence fee and fixed fee

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Tenure

service proper, or tenure in chivalry, was the original and most honourable species of tenure created by a determinate quantity of land called a knight's fee. Its extent was twelve plough lands, that is, as much land

Executory limitation

a person entitled to land for an estate in fee, or for a term of years absolute or determinable on life, or for term of life, with an executory limitation over on default or failure of all

Perpetuity

or relating to land and certain rights or remedies connected therewith, and see also s. 7, ibid. (Determinable fees). Closely connected with the rule against perpetuities was another and independent rule, commonly known as the rule against

freehold

of Anglo-French frank tenement freehold estate] : a tenure of real property the duration of which cannot be determined and by which an estate in fee simple or fee tail or for life is held ;also :

Reversion

A. for life,' leaves in the grantor the reversion in fee-simple, which will commence in possession after the determination of A.'s life-estate; and this is called the particular estate; particular, as carved or sliced out of the

file

esp. by formally receiving and endorsing [a complaint filed by the clerk despite the absence of the filing fee] 2 : to return (the documentation in a case) to the records of a clerk of court without … : to return (the documentation in a case) to the records of a clerk of court without any determination of the case ;broadly : to conclude (a case) without a determination on its merits 3 : to

prescription

property that is usually less than a fee by long-term, continuous, open, and hostile use and possession as determined by the law of a jurisdiction [gained title by ] see also easement by prescription at easement compare

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