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fee-simple: estate belonging to the owner and his heirs for ever 2H6 IV. x. 28 “the lord of the soil come to seize me for a stray, for entering his without leave” ; usu. fig.=absolute possession Wiv. IV. ii. 229 “if the devil have him not in ,” All'sW. IV. iii. 314, Rom. III. i. 35 “buy the of my life,” Compl. 144.

