Dictionary

fee simple en · NOUN

Etymology

From Old French fief simple.

Meanings

1. The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.
   • Sir, for a Cardceue he will ſell the fee-ſimple of his ſaluation, the inheritance of it, and cut th’ intaile from all remainders, and a perpetuall ſucceſsion for it perpetually. c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 248, column 2:
   • It had never occurred to me that a parson has no fee-simple in the house and glebe he occupies. 1787, William Cowper, letter, 19 October

Forms

Hyponyms

fee simple determinable · absolute fee simple · fee simple absolute in possession · fee simple subject to executory interest · fee simple subject to condition subsequent · fee simple subject to executory limitation

Translations (5)

pl fee simple (The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate) · cmn 非限嗣繼承地產 /非限嗣继承地产 (The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate) · fi rajoittamaton omistusoikeus (The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate) · mi pānga angiangi (The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate) · cmn 永久產權 /永久产权 (The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate)