fee simple

noun

See under fee(def 4a).

Origin of fee simple

1425–75; late Middle English < Anglo-French

Words nearby fee simple

fedex, fedin, fedn., fedora, fee, fee simple, fee tail, fee-for-service, fee-splitting, feeb, feeble

Definition for fee simple (2 of 2)

fee

[ fee ]

/ fi /

noun

a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.

a sum paid or charged for a privilege: an admission fee.

a charge allowed by law for the service of a public officer.

Law.

an estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs(fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).
an inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
a territory held in fee.

a gratuity; tip.

verb (used with object), feed, fee·ing.

to give a fee to.

Chiefly Scot. to hire; employ.

Origin of fee

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French fie, variant of fief fief. See feudal

SYNONYMS FOR fee

1 stipend, salary, emolument; honorarium.

OTHER WORDS FROM fee

fee·less, adjective o·ver·fee, noun su·per·fee, noun

Example sentences from the Web for fee simple

He was born only with the life-interest, and he has determined to treat it as though the fee-simple had belonged to him.

Mr. Scarborough's Family |Anthony Trollope
Perhaps no person in Mortlake would singly pass a long night in this solemn structure, for the fee-simple of half the town!

A Morning's Walk from London to Kew |Richard Phillips
A sum nearly equal, at that time, to the fee-simple of the three parishes.

An History of Birmingham (1783) |William Hutton
It would, in these counties, cost a tenth part of the worth of the fee-simple of the land.

Rural Rides |William Cobbett

It had never occurred to me that a parson has no fee-simple in the house and glebe he occupies.

The Works of William Cowper |William Cowper

British Dictionary definitions for fee simple (1 of 2)

fee

/ (fiː) /

noun

a payment asked by professional people or public servants for their services a doctor's fee; school fees

a charge made for a privilege an entrance fee

property law

an interest in land capable of being inheritedSee fee simple, fee tail
the land held in fee

(in feudal Europe) the land granted by a lord to his vassal

an obsolete word for a gratuity

in fee

law (of land) in absolute ownership
archaic in complete subjection

verb fees, feeing or feed

rare to give a fee to

mainly Scot to hire for a fee

Derived forms of fee

feeless, adjective

Word Origin for fee

C14: from Old French fie, of Germanic origin; see fief

British Dictionary definitions for fee simple (2 of 2)

fee simple

noun

property law an absolute interest in land over which the holder has complete freedom of disposition during his life Compare fee tail

Word Origin for fee simple

C15: from Anglo-French: fee (or fief) simple

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fee simple

noun

Origin of fee simple

Words nearby fee simple

Definition for fee simple (2 of 2)

noun

verb (used with object), feed, fee·ing.

Origin of fee

SYNONYMS FOR fee

OTHER WORDS FROM fee

Example sentences from the Web for fee simple

British Dictionary definitions for fee simple (1 of 2)

noun

verb fees, feeing or feed

Derived forms of fee

Word Origin for fee

British Dictionary definitions for fee simple (2 of 2)

noun

Word Origin for fee simple