determinable fee

determinable fee
An estate limited to a person and his heirs, with a qualification annexed by which it is provided that the estate must determine whenever that qualification is at an end; otherwise known as a base fee, qualified fee, or a defeasible fee. Staack v Detterding, 182 Iowa 582, 161 NW 44; King County v Henson Invest. Co. 34 Wash 2d 112, 208 P2d 113. Upon the grant of a determinable fee there remains in the grantor a possibility of reverter. Donehue v Nilges (Me) 266 SW2d 553, 45 ALR2d 1150.

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