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Fee simple

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a fee without limitation to any class of heirs; they can sell it or give it away wordnet

Etymology

From Old French fief simple.

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