fee tail
nounEtymology
From Middle English fee taille, fetayll, from Anglo-Norman fee tailé, from Medieval Latin foedum talliātum.
- derived from foedum talliātum
- derived from fee tailé
- inherited from fee taille
Definitions
An estate in land in common law in which the land is inherited, but cannot be sold,…
An estate in land in common law in which 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.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA