• An example of the words creating a base fee are “to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Tinsleydale,” which would terminate when A or his heirs are no longer tenants of the manor of Tinsleydale. Among the base fees at common law are the fee simple subject to a condition subsequent and the conditional fee.
— Also termed determinable fee; qualified fee; limited fee. See fee simple determinable under FEE SIMPLE.
