Fee-simple definitions

An estate in land of which the inheritor has unqualified ownership and power of disposition.
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Private ownership of real estate in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.
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Absolute ownership of real property with unrestricted rights of disposition.
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At common law, the broadest possible ownership interest in real estate, inheritable by any heir of the owner.
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A fee simple with no conditions placed upon it and that will endure as long as there are descendants of the original owner to inherit it.
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A fee simple that is terminable despite the existence of heirs, because of the occurrence of a particular event or condition.
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A fee simple that terminates and reverts to the grantor upon the occurrence of a particular event or condition; commonly a grant of property to be used for charitable purposes and that reverts if no longer used in this way.
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The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use and transfer the property at will.
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Alternative spelling of fee simple.
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Origin of fee-simple

From Old French fief simple

Sentence Examples

  • an estate in fee simple - is only a tenancy.

  • where a greater and a less estate coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, as, for instance, when a tenant for years obtains the fee simple.

  • - Under these leases, the term of which is usually 99 and sometimes 999 years, the tenant is to a certain extent in the position of a fee simple proprietor, except that his right is terminable, and that he can only exercise such rights of ownership as are conferred on him either by statute or by the terms of his lease.

  • senior, elder), in English law, the lordship remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee-simple.

  • Every seignory now existing must have been created before the Statute of Quia Emptores (1290), which forbade the future creation of estates in fee-simple by subinfeudation.

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