{"id":8616,"date":"2017-11-19T22:35:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T22:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8616"},"modified":"2018-06-13T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:02:42","slug":"absolute-estate-a-full-and-complete-estate-that-cannot-be-defeated","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8616","title":{"rendered":"absolute estate – a full, complete estate in real property wherein the owner has complete, unqualified and unconditional possession, control, dominion, and right of disposition, which descends to his heirs upon his death, if his will does not otherwise direct"},"content":{"rendered":"

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absolute estate<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n(16c)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1. A full and complete estate that cannot be defeated.<\/strong> [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An estate in real property<\/a> of which the owner has complete, unqualified and unconditional possession, control, dominion, and right of disposition, and which descends to his heirs upon his death, if his will does not otherwise direct.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0See absolute owner<\/em>; fee<\/em>; fee simple<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The words “absolute estate” which appear in a will making bequests in trust as well as bequests of a full and complete interest has reference to the bequests other than those in trust. Hills v Hard<\/em>, 136 Conn 536, 72 A2d 807<\/span>.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An estate in real property which is owned unconditionally and which passes to the owner’s heirs under the intestate laws if the owner fails to leave a will directing otherwise. \u00a0EXAMPLE: a fee simple estate.<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0See unconditional ownership<\/em>. \u00a0Compare conditional ownership<\/em>. [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from G.C. Cheshire’s\u00a0Modern Law of Real Property<\/em><\/a> (3d\u00a0ed. 1933):<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“<\/span>The epithet absolute is used to distinguish an estate extended to any given time, without any condition to defeat or collateral limitation to determine [i.e. terminate] the estate in the mean time, from an estate subject to a condition or collateral limitation.\u00a0 The term absolute is of the same signification with the word pure or simple a word which expresses that the estate is not determinable by any event besides the event marked by the clause of limitation.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [4]<\/span><\/p>\n

Related Terms:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

absolute title<\/span> –<\/strong> (17c) An exclusive title to land; a title that excludes all others not compatible with it.<\/strong> \u00a0[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

fee simple absolute<\/span><\/a> – the broadest real property interest (estate in land) allowed by law; exclusive, hereditable ownership. <\/strong>\u2014 Often shortened to fee simple<\/strong><\/em> or fee<\/em><\/strong>. \u2014 aka fee simple absolute in possession<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Tenth<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> 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]: Ballantine\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>with<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Pronunciations<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Legal<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Assistant<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[4]: G.C. Cheshire, Modern Law of Real Property<\/em><\/a> 54 (3d\u00a0<\/span>ed. 1933).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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