fee-tail
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fee-tail
limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs
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Fee-tail
an entailed estate, which on failure of heirs reverts to the donor -
Fee-tail
. See under Fee.
The New-born succeeds to the fee-simple as last in tail. "Kenelm Chillingly, Complete" by
They have no horns, no tails, none of the fee-faw-fum of Tasso and Klopstock. "Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII" by
He held, as he supposed, a piece of land in fee, but, in fact, he was only seized in tail. "Cock Lane and Common-Sense" by
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." by
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" by
On the 12th, I obtained leave to bring in a bill declaring tenants in tail to hold their lands in fee simple. "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson" by
It is divisible into three species: (1) fee simple; (2) conditional fee; (3) fee tail. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2" by