Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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fee simple subject to special limitation
See fee simple determinable.
special limitation
A restriction that causes an estate to end automatically and revert to the grantor upon the happening of a specified event. See fee simple determinable under FEE SIMPLE. "[I]f a deed or will uses such words as 'for so long as,' 'while,' during,' or 'until' to introduce the circumstances under which an estate may end prior to its running its maximum course, it is generally assumed that a special limitation was intended." Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests 50 (2d ed. 1984).