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fee simple

noun

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fee simple

noun

  1. property law an absolute interest in land over which the holder has complete freedom of disposition during his life Compare fee tail
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fee simple1

1425–75; late Middle English < Anglo-French
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fee simple1

C15: from Anglo-French: fee (or fief) simple
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Example Sentences

The wealth which was collected within five miles of the Stadthouse of Amsterdam would purchase the fee simple of Scotland.

I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail.

I seemed to have purchased the fee simple of his good graces by my flattery.

Mine host, mine host, we lay all night at the George in Waltham; but whether the George be your fee-simple or no, 'tis a question.

An estate-tail is, by the origin of the word, cut or carved (taill) out of the fee-simple.

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