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fee tail

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fee tail
An estate of inheritance which is limited to one particular class of heirs of the person to whom it is granted.


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An estate that is inherited by the heirs of the tenant after his or her death is a Fee tail estate.
33) Some complications are always acknowledged: Defeasible fees and leases can be further subdivided into subtypes,(34) and the fee tail has been abolished in nearly all jurisdictions and is for practical purposes defunct.
67) Even within the narrow confines of the numerus clausus, the centuries-long struggle between landowners and the state over particular estates, such as the fee tail and life estate, further limited the temporal fragmentation of legal things.
 
 
 
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