fee simple

plural fees simple

1. lawThe private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.

   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

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   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