"defeasible fee" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: defeasible fees [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} defeasible fee (plural defeasible fees)
  1. (law) An estate in land that may be divested from its current owner upon the occurrence of an event set forth by the grantor in the grant. Categories (topical): Law Related terms: fee simple determinable, fee simple subject to condition subsequent, fee simple subject to executory limitation
    Sense id: en-defeasible_fee-en-noun-B8aQtNI6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: law

Inflected forms

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