Definition of Entail. Meaning of Entail. Synonyms of Entail

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Definition of Entail

Entail
Entail En*tail", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Entailing.] [OE. entailen to carve, OF. entailler. See Entail, n.] 1. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage. Allowing them to entail their estates. --Hume. I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. --Shak. 2. To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.] To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. --Shak. 3. To cut or carve in a ornamental way. [Obs.] Entailed with curious antics. --Spenser.
Entail
Entail En*tail", n. [OE. entaile carving, OF. entaille, F., an incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- (L. in) + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or limited. See Tail limitation, Tailor.] 1. That which is entailed. Hence: (Law) (a) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. (b) The rule by which the descent is fixed. A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. --Hume. 2. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] ``A work of rich entail.' --Spenser.

Meaning of Entail from wikipedia

- In English common law, fee tail or entail is a form of trust, established by deed or settlement, that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in...
- In linguistic semantics, a downward entailing (DE) propositional operator is one that constrains the meaning of an expression to a lower number or degree...
- Entail Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to entails. The Entail (Scotland) Act 1914...
- Look up entail or entailment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Entail may refer to: Fee tail, a term of art in common law describing a limited form...
- Strawson entailment is a variant of the concept of entailment which is insensitive to presupposition failures. Formally, a sentence P Strawson-entails a sentence...
- Linguistic entailments are entailments which arise in natural language. If a sentence A entails a sentence B, sentence A cannot be true without B being...
- and, in 1896, was retitled the Entail Act 1685 (c. 26) [12mo ed: c. 22], was one of the Entail Acts. It allowed entail settling heritable property inalienably...
- was codified by the Entail Act 1685. Tailzie is similar to the common law concept of fee tail, as the "heir in tailzie" is entailed to the property. An...
- Logical consequence (also entailment or logical implication) is a fundamental concept in logic which describes the relationship between statements that...
- context does not entail a transitive object. That lack of an object distinguishes intransitive verbs from transitive verbs, which entail one or more objects...