Quasi Fee
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
An estate gained by wrong; for wrong is unlimited and uncontained within rules. Wharton.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
An estate
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
An estate gained by wrong ; for wrong is unlimited and uncontained within rules. Wharton.
2. The word "fee" is also frequently used to denote the land which is held in fee.
3. The compass or circuit of a manor or lordship. Coweli.
4.
In American law. A fee ls an estate Of inheritance without condition, belonging to the owner, and alienable by him, or transmissible to his heirs absolutely and simply. It is an absolute estate in perpetuity, and the largest possible estate a man can have, being, in fact, allodial in its nature. Earnest v. Little River Land, etc., Co.., 109 Tenn. 427, 75 S. W. 1122; Phoenix v. Emigration Co.m'rs, 12 How. Prae. (N. Y.) 10; United States Pipe-Line Co. v. Delaware, L. & W. R. Co., 62 N. J. Law, 254, 41 AtL 759, 42 In R. A. 572.
5. A reward, compensation, or wage given to one for the performance of official duties (clerk of court, sheriff, etc.) or for professional services, as in the ease of an attorney at law or a physician.
Defined under Fee in Black's Law Dictionary.