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Limited fee

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

Black's Law Dictionary

An estate of inheritance in lands, which is clogged or confined with some sort of condition or qualification. Such estates are base or qualified fees, conditional fees, and fees-taii. The term is-'opposed to "fee-simple."

2 Bl. Comm. 109; Lott v. Wyckoff, 1 Barb. (N. Y.) 575; Paterson v. Ellis, 11 Wend. (N. Y.) 259