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Determinable

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Liable to come to an end by the happening of a contingency: as, a determinable fee.

See 2 Bouv, Inst, note 1695.

DETERMINABLE FEE (also called a "qualified" or "base" fee). One which has a qualification subjoined to it, and which must be determined whenever the qualifihis father affords an example of this species of estate.

Litt. § 264; Co. Litt. 27a, 220; 1 Preston, Est. 449; 2 Bl. Comm. 109; Cruise, Dig. tit 1, § 82; 2 Bouv. Inst, note 1695.