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Fee tail

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    a fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English fee taille, fetayll, from Anglo-Norman fee tailé, from Medieval Latin foedum talliātum.

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