fee /fē/

1. The price paid for services, such as to a lawyer or physician
2. Recompense, wages
3. The sum exacted for any special privilege
4. A charge payable on entering, joining or taking part
5. A grant of land for feudal service (historical)
6. Feudal tenure
7. Service (obsolete)
8. Fee simple
9. Inheritance (obsolete)
10. Possession (obsolete)
11. Ownership (obsolete)
12. Cattle, livestock (obsolete)
13. Property (obsolete)
14. Money (obsolete)

1. To pay a fee to
2. To hire (Scot)

feeˈ-farm noun (Shakespeare)

Tenure by fee simple at a fixed rent without services

feeˈ-grief noun (Shakespeare)

A private grief

feeˈing-market noun (Scot)

A fair or market at which farm-servants are hired for the year or half-year following

fee simple noun

Unconditional inheritance

fee tail noun

An entailed estate, which may descend only to a certain class of heirs

base fee

Qualified fee, a freehold estate of inheritance to which a qualification is annexed

conditional fee

1. A fee granted on condition, or limited to particular heirs
2. The estate of a mortgagee of land, possession of which is conditional on payment

great fee

The land-holding of a tenant of the Crown

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