mircea_popescu: !#s fee tail

mircea_popescu: well what the fuck, i'm not leaving this in my will fee tail.

mircea_popescu: the woman's husband wanted to end the fee tail on the woman's dowry estate, and did not wish to entertain her children (which she had with a guy she actually liked, about her age), and so ... had his friend teh lord of the cinque ports declare them slaves, and they got sent where slaves went in 1500.

mircea_popescu: anyway, fee tail used to exist, as the practical consequence of alodial title