fee simple

noun

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fee simple

noun

1. See fee tail
   property law an absolute interest in land over which the holder has complete freedom of disposition during his life Compare fee tail

Word History and Origins

Origin of fee simple¹

1425–75; late Middle English < Anglo-French

Word History and Origins

Origin of fee simple¹

C15: from Anglo-French: fee (or fief) simple

Example Sentences

The wealth which was collected within five miles of the Stadthouse of Amsterdam would purchase the fee simple of Scotland.

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I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail.

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I seemed to have purchased the fee simple of his good graces by my flattery.

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Mine host, mine host, we lay all night at the George in Waltham; but whether the George be your fee-simple or no, 'tis a question.

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An estate-tail is, by the origin of the word, cut or carved (taill) out of the fee-simple.

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