fee tail

fee tail

an estate in real property which may be inherited only by a specified class of heirs, usually the natural children of the owner

Origin of fee tail

Anglo-French fee tailé from fee (see fee) + tailé, past participle of taillir, to cut, limit (OFr taillier): see tailor

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fee tail

noun

pl. fees tail

An estate in land that may only be passed on to lineal descendants.

Origin of fee tail

Middle English fe taille from Anglo-Norman fee taile fee fee ; see fee . Old French taile past participle of tailier to cut ; see tailor .

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Noun

(plural fee tails)

(law, 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.

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Derived from the Middle Latin foedum talliatum.

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fee tail - Legal Definition

Archaic

A fee estate granted to a particular individual and his or her specified heirs (typically direct issue, not collateral heirs) and that reverts if the individual dies without such heirs.

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