Definitions for "Fee Tail"
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A freehold estate in which there is a fixed line of inheritance succession.
An estate limited to a particular class of heirs of the person to whom the property or estate is granted.
An estate of inheritance which specifies the descendants or classes or heirs of the devisee who may succeed to the said estate.
An interest in property or an estate that can only descend to heirs of an owner.A fee tail cannot be transferred in any other way and is not permitted in most areas of the country.
a fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away
Full title restricted in its passage to direct descendants of the owner.
an estate of inheritance in land, limited to a partic-ular class of heirs
An estate of inheritance limited to lineal descendant heirs of a person to whom it was granted
Inheritance of an entailed estate, which may descend only to a certain class of heirs e.g. eldest sons
An archaic form, an estate in land where title to the property was limited to the owner and his descendants with no power to transfer. Usually created by a transfer to the person "and the heirs of his body".
Property ownership limited to some particular heirs
land whose descent is limited to heirs of the body of the original grantee.
An estate in land which was designed to restrict the conveyance of title to the descendants of the grantee. This estate is established by a grant in N following words of conveyance are used, 'to X and the heirs of his body." Effectively the fee tail created a long series of successive life estates. This estate was to promote the landlord aristocracy in England by keeping property in family..
A form of tenure under the feudal system that could only be transferred to a lineal descendant. If there were no lineal descendants upon the death of the tenant, the land reverted back to the lord.
An estate in which conveyance is limited to the descendants of the grantee.
An estate or interest in land which cannot be conveyed but which must descend to the heirs of the holder; abolished in most states.
The establishment of a fixed line of inheritance through lined descent.
Fee tail or entail is an obsolete term of art in common law. It describes an estate of inheritance in real property which cannot 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. The term fee tail is derived from the Middle Latin feodum talliatum, which means "cut-short fee."