n. Cattle; live stock, especially considered as the basis of wealth.n. Property; estate.n. Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.n. Specifically A reward or compensation for services; recompense; in Scotland, wages.n. In particular— A reward fixed by law for the services of a public officer: as, a sheriff's fee for execution.n. A reward for professional services: as, a lawyer's fee; a clergyman's marriage fee.n. A customary gratuity: as, a waiter's fee.n. A sum paid for a privilege: as, an entrance fee to a circus; an initiation fee to a club.To pay a fee to; reward for services past or to come.To hire or bribe; engage or employ the services of.To cause to engage with a person for domestic or farm service: as, a man fees his son to a farmer.n. An estate in land, of indefinite duration, granted by and held of a superior lord, in whom the ultimate title resides, on condition of performing some service in return. See feud.n. An estate of inheritance; an estate in land belonging to the owner and his heirs and assigns forever.n. Estate in general; property; possession; ownership.n. A fee limited to particular heirs or a particular class of heirs, under the common-law rule that, on the donee's once having such heirs, the estate became absolute for all purposes of alienation, on the ground that a condition once performed was at an end. (See entail.) To designate this kind of conditional fee at the common law, the more appropriate phrase is fee simple conditional. This evasion of the intent of donors to reserve a reversion on a failure of heirs was put an end to by a statute known as De Donis, which enacted that the will of the donor should be observed, and that on the failure of heirs the property should revert to the donor. The estate of the donee under this statute was termed a fee tail. See tail, adjectiven. Later, the term conditional fee was applied to the estate of a mortgagee of land, under a mortgage in the usual form, which was regarded as vesting the fee in the mortgagee subject to its being divested by performance of the condition, namely payment.n. In hunting, certain portions of the dead animal which were distributed among the huntsmen according to definite regulations.
