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FEE EXPECTANT [1 record]

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Record 1 2003-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Agriculture - General
  • Agricultural Economics
DEF

A fee tail created when land is given to a man and wife and the heirs of their bodies.

CONT

If lands were given to a man and his wife in tail, to hold to them and their heirs, they had an estate tail and a fee-expectant.

OBS

fee expectant; fee-expectant : historical terms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Agriculture - Généralités
  • Économie agricole

Spanish

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