fee simple
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English
Etymology
From Old French fief simple.
Noun
fee simple (plural fees simple)
- (law) The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 248, column 2:
- Sir, for a Cardceue he will ſell the fee-ſimple of his ſaluation, the inheritance of it, and cut th’ intaile from all remainders, and a perpetuall ſucceſsion for it perpetually.
- 1787, William Cowper, letter, 19 October:
- It had never occurred to me that a parson has no fee-simple in the house and glebe he occupies.
Hyponyms
- absolute fee simple
- fee simple absolute in possession
- fee simple determinable
- fee simple subject to condition subsequent
- fee simple subject to executory interest
- fee simple subject to executory limitation
Translations
The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate
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