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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A fee simple title is the most common, and least encumbered, form of ownership of land or real estate. (‘fee’ derives from ‘fief!’). When you own something fee simple, you’re free to do what you want with it, so the substitution is a natural one. Examples:
Free Simple Title can be obtained for foreign ownership ...
www.cortomaltesplaya.com/buyinginmex.html
...in 1984 dollars, 20000 sq. kms. of land in free simple with all surface …
www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AboriginalLB/1985/5.html
... a person may not acquire free simple title to real property under this section.
arcweb.sos.state.or.us/legislative/legislativeminutes/1999/house/business_consumer/hbca0226.html
.... court will always declare the estate to be free simple subject to a condition subsequent.
adam.rosi-kessel.org/law/outlines/Berman%20Property%20Fall%201996.rtf
Full free simple title to the dedicated park land shall be held by one of the following …
www.mtzion.com/board/ordinances/topic.php?id=644
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I wonder if they think a “free simple” title is cheaper than a “fee simple” title.
After all, it should be free, right?
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klakritz wrote:
A fee simple title is the most common, and least encumbered, form of ownership of land or real estate. (‘fee’ derives from ‘fief’).
Hmm. Isn’t ‘fee simple’ an eggcorn, too, then, for ‘fief simple’? Historical eggcorns! Eggcorns through the ages.
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