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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fee tail

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English

Syllables
fee -tail
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An estate in land in common law in which the land is inherited, but cannot be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death.

Etymology

From Middle English fee taille, fetayll, from Anglo-Norman fee tailé, from Medieval Latin foedum talliātum.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

fees tail (plural)

Questions

What does fee tail mean?
An estate in land in common law in which the land is inherited, but cannot be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death.
Where does fee tail come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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