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  2. Fee simple - Wikipedia

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    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", which is without limitations on the land's use (such as qualifiers or conditions that disallow certain uses of the land or subject the vested interest to termination).

  3. Allodial title - Wikipedia

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    Allodial title constitutes ownership of real property (land, buildings, and fixtures) that is independent of any superior landlord. Allodial title is related to the concept of land held in allodium, or land ownership by occupancy and defence of the land. Most property ownership in common law jurisdictions is fee simple.

  4. Defeasible estate - Wikipedia

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    A fee simple determinable is an estate that will end automatically when the stated event or condition occurs. The interest will revert to the grantor or the heirs of the grantor. Normally, a possibility of reverter follows a fee simple determinable. However, a possibility of reverter does not follow a fee simple determinable subject to an ...

  5. Fee Simple vs. Leasehold: What You Need to Know

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    Owning real estate seems fairly straightforward. While it's not common everywhere, some states are known to have different types of ownership: fee simple and leasehold. Fee simple ownership is the ...

  6. Property law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In most states, full ownership of land is known as fee simple, fee simple absolute, or fee. [14] Fee simple refers to a present interest in the land, which continues indefinitely into the future. [14] One other type of ownership is the defeasible fee, which is like fee simple, except that it can end upon some event occurring. [14]

  7. Title (property) - Wikipedia

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    Title is distinct from possession, a right that often accompanies ownership but is not necessarily sufficient to prove it (for example squatting). In many cases, possession and title may each be transferred independently of the other. For real property, land registration and recording provide public notice of ownership information.

  8. Reversion (law) - Wikipedia

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    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).

  9. Private transfer fee - Wikipedia

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    [113] Stated another way, while a private transfer fee does "diminish the value", [114] the private transfer fee itself does not act as a direct restraint on alienation of the fee simple estate to any degree, much less to the required "unreasonable" degree, because a private transfer fee covenant does not prohibit the conveyance. In Schodowski ...