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A fee tail was often given to a man and the issue of his body.

Humane masters were denied the right to emancipate their slaves, and the latter were prohibited from owning real property in fee simple or fee tail.

The grantees in their turn settled these holdings in fee tail on the oldest son in accordance with the law of primogeniture.

Former judge Sir Thomas Littleton wrote a legal textbook describing tenancies in dower; the tenures of socage, knight's service, serjeanty, and burgage; estates in fee simple, fee tail, and fee conditional.

Edward Shelley was a tenant in fee tail general.