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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
a fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fee
History
From Middle English fee taille, fetayll, from Anglo-Norman fee tailé, from Medieval Latin foedum talliātum.
Across languages
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