FEE EXPECTANT

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FEE EXPECTANTmain
Black's Law Dictionary • 1891
An estate where lands are given to a man and his wife, and the heirs of their bodies.
FEE EXPECTANTmain
Bouvier's Law Dictionary • 1928
A name some- times applied to an estate created where lands are given to a man and his wife in frank marriage (q. v.), to have and to hold to them and their heirs. In this case they have fee simple; but if they are given to them and their heirs, they have tail and fee-expectant. Tomlin; Kitch. 153.

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