In English statute law, a base fee is defined as “that estate in fee simple into which an estate in tail is converted where the issues in tail are barred, but persons claiming estates by way of remainder or otherwise are not barred”, Fines and Recoveries Act 1833, s. In other words, a base fee would be an absolute estate in fee simple, except that the holder of that estate risks the possibility that the person who is entitled to the immediate remainder (or, if he is dead, the person entitled to his estate) may be entitled to regain the fee simple. Thus, it is a fee simple that will not pass the recipient’s own issue (as they are ‘barred’), but could still pass to other successors if the issue of the holder of the estate fail. In that event, the recipient of the estate receives a ‘base fee’. any conveyance or transfer of a fee simple estate), thereby seeking to bar the rights of succession.
(Eng)An estate in land that arises when the holder of an entailed estate, who is not in possession, or has not obtained the consent of the protector of the estate, executes a disentailing assurance (i.e.
