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CONDITIONAL FEE

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 851 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONDITIONAL See also:

FEE , at See also:English See also:common See also:law, a fee or See also:estate restrained in its See also:form of donation to some particular heirs, as, to the heirs of a See also:man's See also:body, or to the heirs male of his body. It was called a conditional fee by See also:reason of the See also:condition expressed, or implied in the donation of it, that if the donee died without such particular heirs, the See also:land should revert to the donor. In other words, it was a fee See also:simple on condition that the donee had issue, and as soon as such issue was See also:born, the estate was supposed to become See also:absolute by the performance of the condition. A conditional fee was converted by the See also:statute De Donis Conditionalibus into an estate tail (see REAL, See also:PROPERTY).

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