Fee Tail - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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