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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FEE TAIL

From Anglo-French fee tailé fee (or fief) determined, from taillier to cut.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FEE TAIL

fee tail play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FEE TAIL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fee tail is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FEE TAIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fee tail

At common law, fee tail or entail is a restriction on the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property which prevents the property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated, and instead causes it to pass automatically by operation of law to the property owner's heirs at law upon his or her death. The term fee tail is from Medieval Latin feodum talliatum, which means "cut-short fee". The fee tail has been abolished in many jurisdictions. Its purpose was to keep family estates intact in the main line of succession. It also had the effect of disabling illegitimate children from inheriting. But it created complications for many propertied families, especially from about the late 17th to the early 19th century, leaving many individuals wealthy in land but heavily in debt, unable to sell any part of their land or even to offer the property as security for a loan. The nominal "owner" of the property in fact had the equivalent only of a life interest in it, with the remainder passing intact to the next successor or heir in law; any purported bequest of the land was ineffective.

Definition of fee tail in the English dictionary

The definition of fee tail in the dictionary is a freehold interest in land restricted to a particular line of heirs.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FEE TAIL

fee
fee simple
fee-paying
fee-paying school
fee-splitting
feeb
feeble
feeble-minded
feeble-mindedly
feeble-mindedness
feebleness
feeblish
feebly
feed
feed grains
feed-in tariff
feedable
feedback
feedbag
feedbox

WORDS THAT END LIKE FEE TAIL

all-flying tail
cocktail
detail
entail
fat tail
fish tail
go into detail
have a tiger by the tail
in detail
long tail
nose to tail
peacock´s tail
pigtail
ponytail
rat tail
retail
sting in the tail
tail
top and tail
turn tail

Synonyms and antonyms of fee tail in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fee tail» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FEE TAIL

Find out the translation of fee tail to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fee tail from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fee tail» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

费尾巴
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cola cuota
570 millions of speakers

English

fee tail
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शुल्क पूंछ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ذيل رسوم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

плата за хвост
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cauda taxa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফি লেজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

frais queue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ekor bayaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gebühr Schwanz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

手数料の尾
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

수수료 꼬리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Buntut ekor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lệ phí đuôi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கட்டணம் வால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शुल्क शेपूट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ücret kuyruğu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tassa di coda
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

opłata za ogon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

плата за хвіст
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

taxa de coadă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ουρά τέλος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fooi stert
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avgift svans
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gebyr hale
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fee tail

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FEE TAIL»

The term «fee tail» is used very little and occupies the 157.120 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FEE TAIL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fee tail

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FEE TAIL»

Discover the use of fee tail in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fee tail and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England: ...
This book includes an extensive index of over three hundred common recoveries with discussions of their transactional contexts. A major work which will interest lawyers and historians.
Joseph Biancalana, 2001
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Property: Examples & Explanations
By the Statute De Donis Conditionalibus (1285), the fee simple conditional was changed into a fee tail, and thereafter, when O conveyed ''to A and the heirs of his body,'' a fee tail, inheritable to the last member of the grantee's family line, was ...
D. Barlow Burke, Joseph A. Snoe, 2008
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Property: Keyed to Dukeminier/Krier/Alexander/Schill, ...
Statutory conversion to fee simple absolute: Many states have, by statute or state constitutional provision, converted the fee tail into a fee simple absolute. Some state statutes declare that an estate that at common law would have been a fee ...
Massey, 2010
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Family Law in Ireland
A lesser estate than a fee simple is a 'fee tail' estate. This estate passes on death to children of the deceased and if any of the children of the deceased are dead at that time to their children. Such estates are rare and were used to keep land ...
Paul Ward, 2010
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A Short Historical Introduction to the Law of Real Property
Fee Tail Sec. 92. Estate in Fee Tail. The language of the statute is quite clear. As a result of it, the conditional fee could no longer be created, and a return was made to the construction of the early maritagium. It appeared under a new name,  ...
J. John Lawler, Gail Gates Lawler, 2000
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The Law-dictionary: Explaining the Rise, Progress and ...
Defining and Interpreting the Terms Or Words of Art, and Comrising Also Copious Information on the Subjects of Trade and Government Thomas Edlyne Tomlins. T TAIL; on, FEE-TAIL I, II. TAIL; or, FEE-TAIL II. TAIL. I TAB T EVERY person ...
Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 1820
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Law-dictionary Explaining the Rise, Progress and Present ...
T. TAIL j or, FEE-TAIL I, II. TAIL; or, FEE-TAIL II. TAB T EVERY person convict of any felony, save murder, • and admitted to the benefit of his clergy, shall be marked with a T. upon the brawn of his thumb. Slat. 4 Hen. 7. c. 13. See title Clergy ...
Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 1820
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The Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, Knight, on the ...
And here we may observe, that the words of inheritance (to him and his heirs) give him an estate in fee; but they being heirs to be by him begotten, this makes it a fee-tail; and the person being also limited, on whom such heirs shall be begotten ...
William Blackstone, 2009
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Fee Tail: Estate (law), Inheritance, Real Property, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fee tail or entail is an obsolescent estate at common law.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2010
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The statutes at large, of England and of Great Britain: from ...
... shall be compelled by the Authority of the said Court of Augmentations, by Decree or Judgment of the fame Court, to render and yield to any Person or Persons, in Fee-simple or Fee-tail, the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments comprised or ...
Great Britain, Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, John Raithby, 1811

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FEE TAIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fee tail is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nevada Dynasty Trusts Strike Gold In Perpetuities in Bullion Monarch
Thus, the Lords attempted to create restricted deeds to property by which lands were handed down in “fee tail” to only future generations that ... «Forbes, Apr 15»
2
Interests under which land can be held in Kenya
Black's Law Dictionary defines 'freehold interest' as an estate in land held in fee simple, fee tail or for term of life. The word 'fee' means an ... «International Law Office, Mar 15»
3
Downton Abbey's Plot Twists Spur Lawyers' Debates
Occasionally, a fee tail was written in such a way that the land could be ... Downton Abbey in fee simple, rather than fee tail, he could have left it ... «Forbes, Jan 14»
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That's History: Succession laws disadvantaging women have long …
Even then, Ontario hung on to the fee tail, even as most other provinces abolished it, until 1956. That's right — it was 1956, not 1856. The bill to ... «Law Times, Sep 13»
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Apple's Low-Cost iPhone Design Said to Be Mix of iPhone 5 and …
... fooled into believing there is such a thing as a "free" phone or a "cheap" phone when we are then signing up for a 2-year fee tail for "service". «Mac Rumors, Jan 13»

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