Definitions for fee-tail

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fee-tail fee tail

Spelling: [fee]

IPA: /fi/

Fee-Tail is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in fee-tail (-aeefilt).

Definitions for fee-tail

noun

1. See under fee (def 4a).
2. a charge or payment for professional services:
3. a sum paid or charged for a privilege:
4. a charge allowed by law for the service of a public officer.
5. Law. an estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail) an inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services. a territory held in fee.
6. a gratuity; tip.

verb (used with object)

1. to give a fee to.
2. Chiefly Scot. to hire; employ.

Origin of fee-tail

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French

Examples for fee-tail

The grantees in their turn settled these holdings in fee tail on the oldest son in accordance with the law of primogeniture.

It is divisible into three species: fee simple; conditional fee; fee tail.

Jurors were required to have at least 20 pounds income from freehold land or rents in fee, fee tail, or for life.

No grantee or his heirs could alienate the land held in fee tail.

Estates of inheritance are divided into estates in fee simple, and estates in fee tail.

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