Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 14 Sec. 6501

  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
Persons seized or having a right of entry into real estate in fee simple or for life, as tenants in common or joint tenants, may be compelled to divide the same by a civil action for partition.