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ˌfee-ˈtail Law.
[a. AF. fee tailé (the final é being dropped as in some other legal words) = Anglo-L. feudum talliatum; the second word is the pa. pple. of OF. taillier (mod.F. tailler) lit. ‘to cut’, whence, to fix precisely, limit.]
An estate of inheritance entailed or limited to some particular class of heirs of the person to whom it is granted; a limited fee. fee-tail expectant: see expectant a. 3.
[1294Year-bk. 21–2 Edw. I (Rolls) 365 Feodum talliatum. Ibid. 641 La ou home feffe un autre en fee pur e nent de fee tayle.] 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 9 §2 Londes..not being his owne enheritaunce..in fe taille. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Pernass. iv. ii. (Arb.) 52 Nay thats plaine in Littleton, for if that fee-simple, and the fee taile be put together, it is called hotch-potch. a1618Raleigh in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 78 In his demesn, as of fee-tail. 1628Coke On Litt. 27 b, Tenant in Fee Tayle. 1741T. Robinson Gavelkind v. 78 In Fee or Fee-Tail expectant on an Estate for Life or in Tail. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1115 Whether he had an estate in fee, fee-tail, or for life. 1831–2Act 2–3 Will. IV, c. 80 §3 in Oxf. & Camb. Enactm. 161 Tenants in fee tail. |