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Meaning of fee simple | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“It had never occurred to me that a parson has no fee-simple in the house and glebe he occupies.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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See also

fee simple absolute in possession fee simple determinable fee simple subject to condition subsequent fee simple subject to executory interest fee simple subject to executory limitation fee splitting

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