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estate tail

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Fee-tail

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Implied Grantor Estate

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Freehold

An estate in real property of inheritance in fee simple or fee tail or for life or the tenure by

Tail

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Recovery

by matter of record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions

Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in

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Wills

the property does not become subject to his debts and liabilities under s. 176. The s. extends to estate tail created either before or after 1925 but does not apply to tenants in tail after possibility of issue

Uses

the statute would execute. (3) A man could not make his own heirs a purchaser, even of an estate tail, for filius est pars patris-h'res est pars antecessoris; but a man might limit the use so as to … barred by the cestui que use by any kind of conveyance, but where it was limited upon an estate-tail the tenant-in-tail could bar it. (8) Every remainder, at the Common Law, must be limited, so as to

Base fee

1926 a fee simple determinable on the failure of issue of an original donee of the estate in tail. It was limited by the failure of the heirs of the body of that donee to take, and … Base fee. A species of inheritable freehold estate which forms part of the class of estates known as conditional freeholds of inheritance. In a more special

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