fee tail

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. fee tailé[1], from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "ML." is not valid. See WT:LOL. foedum talliatum.

Noun

fee tail (plural fees tail)

  1. (law, obsolete) An estate in land in common law wherein the land is inherited, but cannot be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death.

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References

  1. ^ “fee-tail”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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