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The fee tail allowed a patriarch to perpetuate his blood-line, family-name, honour and armorials [1] in the persons of a series of powerful and wealthy male descendants. By keeping his estate intact in the hands of one heir alone, in an ideally indefinite and pre-ordained chain of succession, his own wealth, power and family honour would not be dissipated amongst several male lines, as became ...
De donis conditionalibus or the Estates Tail Act 1285 is a chapter of the English Statutes of Westminster (1285). [1] ... or an estate in fee tail (feudum talliatum).
A fee also could be limited through the method of its inheritance, such as by an "entailment", which created a fee tail. Traditionally, fee tail was created by words of grant such as "to N. and the male heirs of his body", which would restrict those who could inherit the property.
If the time of ownership can be fixed and determined, it cannot be a freehold. It is "An estate in land held in fee simple, fee tail or for term of life." [4] The default position subset is the perpetual freehold, which is "an estate given to a grantee for life, and then successively to the grantee's heirs for life." [4]
The fee simple estate and the fee tail estate are estates of inheritance; they pass to the owner's heirs by operation of law, either without restrictions (in the case of fee simple), or with restrictions (in the case of fee tail). The estate for years and the life estate are estates not of inheritance; the owner owns nothing after the term of ...
A fee tail is a limited estate with succession confined to the direct descendants of the original holder of the estate – descendant determined according to ancient heirship rules which leaned in favour of the eldest son.
A common recovery was a legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate (a form of land ownership also called a fee tail) into absolute ownership, fee simple. [1] This was accomplished through the use of a series of collusive legal procedures, some parts of which were fictional and others unenforceable (and ...
entailed estates (fee tail); common recovery; barring the entail (conversion to normal estate of fee simple) Taltarum's Case is the name given to an English legal case heard in the Court of Common Pleas , with decisions being handed down in 1465 and 1472.