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Determinable fee

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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(Also calied a "qualified" or "base" fee.} One which has a qualification subjoined to it, and which must be determined whenever the quni-ification annexed to it is at an end. 2 Bl. Comm. 109. An estate in fee which is liable to be determined by some act or event expressed on its limitation to circumscribe its continuance, or inferred by law as bounding its extent. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 62; MicLane v. Bo-vee, 35 Wis. 36