fee tail

1. 1.

   a fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away

   Broaderfee

Questions about fee tail

What does fee tail mean?

fee tail means "a fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away".

Is fee tail a common word?

fee tail is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.