Base fee
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In English law
An estate or fee which has a qualification subjoined thereto, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it is at an end.
2 Bl. Comm. 109. Wiggins Ferry Co v. Railroad Co., 94 111. 93; Camp Meeting Ass'n v. East Lyme, 54 Co.nn. 152, 5 Atl.1 849.