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"Section F, G and H"

] 1. property;
possession; tenure.
"Laden with rich fee."
Spenser.


Once did she hold the gorgeous East in
fee.
Wordsworth.


2. Reward or compensation for services
rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional
services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge;
pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the
fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees;
marriage fees, etc.


To plead for love deserves more fee than
hate.
Shak.


3. (Feud. Law) A right to the use of a
superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the
land so held; a fief.


4. (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance
supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the
sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.


&fist; All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this
kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land which a
man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants
in fee simple
.


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