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Definition of Estate in tail

Estate in tail
Tail Tail, n. [F. taille a cutting. See Entail, Tally.] (Law) Limitation; abridgment. --Burrill. Estate in tail, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded; -- called also estate tail. --Blackstone.

Meaning of Estate in tail 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...
- different from personal property, while estate means the "interest" a person has in that land property. Real estate is different from personal property,...
- restrictions (in the case of fee simple), or with restrictions (in the case of fee tail). The estate for years and the life estate are estates not of inheritance;...
- as in an estate for years. A fee also could be limited through the method of its inheritance, such as by an "entailment", which created a fee tail. Traditionally...
- Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (released in some countries as Garfield 2) is a 2006 adventure comedy film directed by Tim Hill and written by Joel Cohen...
- Prussian graviate; the title was Graf von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, and an estate in tail, Besitz Herdringen, was given on 16 January 1843 to Franz Egon Freiherr...
- executory limitation finite estate—limited to lifetimes life estate—fragmented possession and use for duration of someone's life fee tail—inalienable rights of...
- De donis conditionalibus or the Estates Tail Act 1285 is a chapter of the English Statutes of Westminster (1285). It originated the law of entail – forbidding...
- by non-military law enforcement officers in Germany after to reunification on 3 October 1990, whether or not in the line of duty, irrespective of reason...
- Prussian graviate; the title was Graf von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, and an estate in tail, Besitz Herdringen, was given on 16 January 1843 to Franz Egon Freiherr...