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fee tail

noun

(COMMON LAW; PROPERTY LAW) (DATED) a legal interest in land that can only be passed on to the owner's descendants (=people who are related to someone and who live these relatives have died)The fee tail was a device tuned to the needs of family settlements in the thirteenth century.

Synonyms and Other Spellings

entail