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Origin of fee tail

1250–1300; Middle English <Anglo-French

Words nearby fee tail

feel up to, feen, fee simple, fee-splitting, feet, fee tail, feetfirst, feet of clay, feet on the ground, feeze, feh

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How to use fee tail in a sentence

I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail.
Richard Carvel, Complete|Winston Churchill
It is divisible into three species: fee simple; conditional fee; fee tail.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2|Various
Estates of inheritance are divided into estates in fee simple, and estates in fee tail.
Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 3|Various
Jurors were required to have at least 20 pounds income from freehold land or rents in fee, fee tail, or for life.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.|S. A. Reilly

The grantees in their turn settled these holdings in fee tail on the oldest son in accordance with the law of primogeniture.
The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916|Various

British Dictionary definitions for fee tail

fee tail

noun

property law

a freehold interest in land restricted to a particular line of heirs
an estate in land subject to such restrictionCompare fee simple

Word Origin for fee tail

C15: from Anglo-French fee tailé fee (or fief) determined, from taillier to cut

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