Determinable fee
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A fee subject to defeasance by the happening of a contingency. See 155 Mass. 171, 15 L. R. A. 231, 29 N. E. 524.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
(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
Defined under Fee in Black's Law Dictionary.