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English
Etymology
From Middle English fee taille, fetayll, from Anglo-Norman fee tailé, from Medieval Latin foedum talliātum.
Noun
fee tail (plural fees tail)
- (law) An estate in land in common law in which the land is inherited, but cannot be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death.
Translations
estate in land in common law wherein the land is inherited
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