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In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership. A "fee" is a vested, inheritable, present possessory interest in land. A "fee simple" is real property held without limit of time (i.e., permanently) under common law, whereas the highest possible form of ownership is a "fee simple absolute ...
Accession has different definitions depending upon its application. Accession in property law is a mode of acquiring property that involves the addition of value to the property through labour or the addition of new materials. For example, a person who owns a property on a river delta also takes ownership of any additional land that builds up ...
Higher category: Law and Common law. v. t. A reversion in property law is a future interest that is retained by the grantor after the conveyance of an estate of a lesser quantum than he has (such as the owner of a fee simple granting a life estate or a leasehold estate). Once the lesser estate comes to an end (the lease expires or the life ...
Private transfer fee. A private transfer fee covenant [1] is a legal instrument that is filed in the real property records, which imposes an assessment payable in connection with a series of future transfers of title to certain real property. The assessment [2] can be for a fixed amount or a percentage of the sales price, and typically runs for ...
Property law in the United States
Title (property)
The acquisition fee change bumped up the cost from $1,725 per acre-foot to the market rate of $4,150 an acre-foot. ... real estate agents and property owners asked the city to rescind the ...
v. t. e. In English common law, fee tail or entail, is a form of trust, established by deed or settlement, that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents that property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the tenant-in-possession, and instead causes it to pass automatically, by operation ...