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"Section F, G and H"

In modern writers, by fee is usually meant
fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualified or
base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain
conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is
limited to particular heirs. Blackstone.


5. (Amer. Law) An estate of
inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs,
absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the
tenure.


Fee estate (Eng. Law), land or
tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or
service rendered to the lord.
-- Fee farm
(Law), land held of another in fee, in consideration of an
annual rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that
mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a
perpetual rent.
Blackstone. -- Fee farm
rent
(Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon
a conveyance in fee simple.
-- Fee fund
(Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks
and other court officers are paid.
-- Fee
simple
(Law), an absolute fee; a fee without
conditions or limits.


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