fee tail


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fee tail/fiːˈteɪl/
noun (pl. fees tail) Law, chiefly historical a type of tenure in land with restrictions (entailments) regarding the line of heirs to whom it may be willed.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. fee tailé (see fee, tail2).
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