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Definition of Fee tail
1. Noun. A fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away.
Definition of Fee tail
1. Noun. (legal) (obsolete) An estate in land at common law wherein the land is inherited, but can not 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fee Tail
Literary usage of Fee tail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(iii) Fee-tail and reversion.—Upon the construction of this act of ... And hence
it is that Littleton tells us," that tenant in fee-tail is by virtue of the ..."
2. A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property by Emory Washburn (1864)
"North Carolina, tenant in fee tail is seised in fee-simple, and for a valuable
consideration may convey it in fee. Code, 1854, c. 43, $ 1. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"As a fee tail is an abbreviated fee—a less estate, that is to say, ... In most
States it is provided that an attempt to create a fee tail shall result in a ..."
4. An Elementary Digest of the Law of Property in Land by Stephen Martin Leake (1874)
"fee tail. § 1. The limitation of a fee tail in conveyances. § 2. The limitation
of a fee tail in wills. § 1. THE LIMITATION OF A fee tail IN CONVEYANCES Fee ..."
5. Littleton's Tenures in English by Thomas Littleton, Eugene Wambaugh (1903)
"fee tail. § 13. Tenant in fee tail is by force of the statute of Westminster
II.,1 cap, 1; for before the said statute, all inheritances were fee simple; ..."
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