Fee

Primarily, in English law, a loan of land and estate in trust, granted by prince or lord, to be held by the grantee on condition of personal service, or other condition; and if the grantee or tenant failed to perform the conditions, the land reverted to the lord or donor, called the landlord. In the united States, an estate in fee or fee-simple is what is called in English law an allodial estate, an estate held by a man or woman in his/her own right, and descendible to the heirs in general.