Defeasible fee

An estate in fee but which is liable to be defeated by some future contingency; e. g., a vested remainder which might be defeated by the death of the remainderman before the time fixed for the taking effect of the devise. Forsythe v. Lansing, 109 Ky. 518, 59 S. W. 854; Wills v. Wills, 85 Ky. 486, 3 S. W. 900.

— Defeasible title t One that. liable to be annulled or made void, but not one that is already void or an absolute nullity. Elder v. Schumacher, 18 Colo. 433, 33 Pac. 175.

Defined under Defeasible in Black's Law Dictionary.