Fee

a reward, compensation, or return for services rendered. It is especially applied to the money paid to profe ional men for their services; as, a lawyer’s fees, marriage fees, etc. In feudal law, fee applied to. all lands and tenements which were held by any acknowledgment of superiority to a higher lord; land held by the benefit of another, and in name whereof the grantee owed services or paid rent, or both, to a superior lord. In American and English law, a freehold estate of inheritance, descendable to heirs general, and liable to alienation at the pleasure of the proprietor.