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Consumption and use

becomes entitled to hold her lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his

Consummation

becomes entitled to hold her lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his

freehold

determined and by which an estate in fee simple or fee tail or for life is held ;also : an estate held

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Feodum taliatum, i.e. hareditas in quandam certitudinem limitata

Feodum taliatum, i.e. hareditas in quandam certitudinem limitata [Lat.], fee-tail - that is, an inheritance within a certain limit.

Tail

estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th … Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a

Recovery

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

Base fee

Base fee. A species of inheritable freehold estate which forms part of … of issue of an original donee of the estate in tail. It was limited by the failure of the heirs of

Strict settlement

possible in the male line, the eldest son taking in fee or in tail with successive limitations in tail to the

Settled land

rest of the land legislation of 1925, so that a fee-simple in possession or a term of years absolute (which are … succession, [sub-s. (ii.)] for any person in possession (a) in tail, (b) for a legal estate subject to a limitation over,

Shelley's case, Rule in

is to his heirs or right heirs he takes the fee-simple; and where it is to the heirs of his body … the second remainder vets in A. as a remainder in tail male general, and is not in contingency or abeyance, nevertheless

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