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fee simple absolute

fee simple absolute see fee simple

fee simple

will, or intestacy) and of potentially indefinite duration ;esp : fee simple absolute in this entry fee simple absolute : a fee that … indefinite duration ;esp : fee simple absolute in this entry fee simple absolute : a fee that is freely inheritable and alienable without

fee

fee granted with no restrictions or limitations on alienability : fee simple absolute at fee simple conditional fee : a fee that is … fee simple determinable at fee simple fee patent : a fee simple absolute that is granted by a patent from the U.S. government

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Fee-simple

phrase universally adopted in deeds, in order to transfer a fee-simple absolute, was 'to A., his heirs and assigns for ever.' The … L.P. Act, 1925, s. 7, includes in the term, a fee-simple absolute, fee-simples which are liable to be divested under certain statutory

Tail

(which was a real action carried onto judgment), giving the fee-simple absolute. these were abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833, … see ss. 40 et seq., ibid.), for an estate in fee-simple absolute, or for any less estate, the lands entailed, as against

Fee

Also an estate of inheritance divided into there species: (1) fee-simple absolute; (2) qualified or conditional or base fee, including (3) fee-tail, … the (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925, s. 1, a fee-simple absolute in possession and a term of years absolute are the

Base fee

Act, 1833, s. 39), and a base fee becomes a fee simple absolute if the person entitled to it has been in possession

Estate

conveyed or created at law are: (a) an estate in fee simple absolute in possession; (b) a term of years absolute and certain

Priority

equitable interests inland (i.e., all estates for less than a fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute and corresponding

ownership

of any encumbrances or limitations other than statutory law compare fee simple absolute at fee simple os·ten·si·ble ownership [Ä -sten-sə-bəl] : ownership that

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