{"id":8510,"date":"2017-11-19T06:15:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T06:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8510"},"modified":"2017-11-19T06:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T06:20:05","slug":"fee-simple-conditional","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8510","title":{"rendered":"Fee Simple Conditional – an estate conveyed to a man conditionally upon his having an heir"},"content":{"rendered":"

fee simple conditional<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(17c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An estate conveyed to a man conditionally upon his having an heir of his body.\u00a0 *\u00a0 If an heir was born alive (whether the child survived or not), the condition was fulfilled and the donee received a fee simple, which he could alienate\u00a0(transfer the property to another)<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. An estate restricted to some specified heirs, exclusive of others (e.g., \u201cto Albert and his female heirs\u201d).\u00a0 *\u00a0 The fee simple conditional is obsolete except in Iowa, Oregon, and South Carolina.<\/strong> \u2014 aka general fee conditional<\/strong><\/em><\/span>; conditional fee<\/span><\/strong><\/em>. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell’s\u00a0Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2d ed. 1984):<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe reader should be careful not to confuse this estate with estates having similar labels, such as the \u2018estate in fee simple subject to a condition subsequent\u2019 . . . .<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a0Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests<\/em><\/a> 29 n.19 (2d ed. 1984).<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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