fee tail

English

Etymology

From Middle English fee taille, fetayll, from Anglo-Norman fee tailé,[1] from Medieval Latin foedum talliātum.

Noun

fee tail (plural fees tail)

  1. (law) 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.

Translations

References
  1. “fee-tail”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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