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In English common law, fee tail or entail, or tailzie in Scots law, 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 of law, to an heir determined by the settlement deed. The terms fee tail and tailzie are from Medieval Latin feodum talliatum, which means "cut(-short) fee". Fee tail deeds are in contrast to "fee simple" deeds, possessors of which have an unrestricted title to the property, and are empowered to bequeath or dispose of it as they wish (although it may be subject to the allodial title of a monarch or of a governing body with the power of eminent domain). Equivalent legal concepts exist or formerly existed in many other European countries and elsewhere; in Scots law tailzie was codified in an Act of 1685 which in 1896 was given a short title as an Entail Act.
Most common law jurisdictions have abolished fee tails or greatly restricted their use. They survive in limited form in England and Wales, but have been abolished in Scotland, Ireland, and all but four states of the United States.
In English common law, feetail or entail, or tailzie in Scots law, is a form of trust, established by deed or settlement, that restricts the sale or inheritance...
that interest or to use it to secure a mortgage loan. Under common law, feetail is hereditary, non-transferable ownership of real property. A similar concept...
of Fees, a scholarly collection of fiefs Brahmadeya, a royal fief given to a Brahmin for service to an Indian king. Enfeoffment Fee simple Feetail Fengjian...
fee tails in Poland, see Feetail in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth In the Kingdom of Poland and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, fee...
life estate—fragmented possession and use for duration of someone's life feetail—inalienable rights of inheritance for duration of family line Leasehold...
her husband. The bulk of Shakespeare's estate was left, in an elaborate feetail, to his elder daughter Susanna and her male heirs. Judith and Thomas Quiney...
trove Bailment License Alienation Estates in land Allodial title Fee simple Feetail Life estate Defeasible estate Future interest remainder Concurrent...
place in the public's interest.[citation needed] American gentry Artisan Feetail (or entail) Magna Carta Manorialism National liberalism Old money Patrician...
defense of the land. Most property ownership in common law jurisdictions is fee simple. In the United States, the land is subject to eminent domain by federal...
Sandomierz, Zator and Ryki and the IV ordynat of the Ostrogski Family FeeTail. He was the owner of the Wiśnicz, Dubno and Zasław estates. He was the...
preserves. According to the 13th century Liber Feodorum (Book of Fees), the feetail granted to Roland the Farter for the manor was conditioned on the...
of the family's wealth. He was the 1st Ordynat of the Zamoyski Family FeeTail. His son, Tomasz Zamoyski, the 2nd Ordynat, was also a chancellor in Poland...
died on 23 April 1616, he left the bulk of his estate, in an elaborate feetail, to Susanna and her male heirs, which included his main house, New Place...
Bombay province has its beginnings in the city of Bombay that was leased in feetail to the East India Company, via the Royal Charter of 27 March 1668 by King...
conveyance by the owner O "To A and heirs of the body", without more, creates a feetail for the grantee (A) with a reversion in the grantor (O) should the natural...
from some other person. For example, a tenant in possession might acquire a fee simple in the land from a superior landowner such as a freeholder. In such...
816 villages. In 1589 he succeeded in establishing the Zamoyski Family FeeTail (ordynacja zamojska), a de facto duchy. Zamoyski supported economical development...
are: For consideration versus gratuitous. If a person agrees to accept a fee or other good consideration for holding possession of goods, they are generally...
– transfer of property by deed of conveyance. Allodial title Demesne FeetailFee simple Ground rent Leasehold Life estate Quia Emptores Minister McDowell...