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fee simple
noun
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fee simple
noun
- property law an absolute interest in land over which the holder has complete freedom of disposition during his life Compare fee tail
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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.
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I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail.
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I seemed to have purchased the fee simple of his good graces by my flattery.
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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.
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An estate-tail is, by the origin of the word, cut or carved (taill) out of the fee-simple.
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