fee simple

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Etymology

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From Old French fief simple.

Noun

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fee simple (plural fees simple)

  1. (law) The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.
    • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 248, column 2:
      Sir, for a Cardceue he will ſell the fee-ſimple of his ſaluation, the inheritance of it, and cut th’ intaile from all remainders, and a perpetuall ſucceſsion for it perpetually.
    • 1787, William Cowper, letter, 19 October:
      It had never occurred to me that a parson has no fee-simple in the house and glebe he occupies.

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