English Explanatory Dictionary

fee tail

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An estate in land in common law in which the land is inherited, but 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.

Word forms

fee tail fees tail

Etymology

From Middle English fee taille, fetayll, from Anglo-Norman fee tailé, from Medieval Latin foedum talliātum.

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