Entail

Definitions

1. That which is entailed.
2. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
3. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
4. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.”

“All land⟳ acquired by inheritance must follow⟳ the Khasi law of entail, by which property descends from the mother to the youngest daughter, and again from the latter to her youngest daughter.”

“A worke of rich entayle.”

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