Fee

An estate of inheritance; a reward or compensation given to one for the execution of his oflS.ce, or for professional services. Fee simple: an absolute estate of inheritance; an unlimited estate in land descendible to a man's heirs generally. Fee tail: a fee descendible to a certain class of heirs only, as to the heirs of the body of the owner.

In old English law

That which one holds of another by service; that which one holds by any title to him and his heirs; land held on condition of service, or held as an inheritance; a seigniory, manor or lordship; an inheritance. Fee simple conditional: an estate which arose before the statute de donis upon a grant to a man and a limited class of heirs. In feudal law. A stipendiary estate held of a superior by service; such an estate held as an inheritance; the land itself held by service.