Download or read book The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England written by Joseph Biancalana and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fee tails" were a building block for family landholding from the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The classic entail was an interest in land which was inalienable and could only pass at death by inheritance to the lineal heirs of the original grantee. Biancalana's study considers the origins, development and use of the entail, and the origins of a reliable legal mechanism for the destruction of individual entails, the common recovery.