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Definition of Entailed
1. entail [v] - See also: entail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entailed
Literary usage of Entailed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1846)
"Sir James Gordon had entailed tor treason estates. the Barony of Park, with
prohibitory, irritant, and resolutive clauses, on his eldest son William, ..."
2. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"Provided, That the successor» of an heir of entail in any other than the entailed
estate, sued on account of improvements, shall be discharged, ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(iv) What may be entailed.—Having thus shown the original of estates-tail, I now
proceed to consider, what things may, or may not, be entailed t113! under ..."
4. The Grand Strategy of Evolution: The Social Philosophy of a Biologist by William Patten (1920)
"... Altruism of Larger Individuals—The Entail System in Sexual Reproduction: Life's
entailed Estates; the entailed Habitat; the Germ or entailed Principal; ..."
5. A History of Germanic Private Law by Rudolf Hübner, Francis Samuel Philbrick, Paul Vinogradoff, William Emanuel Walz (1918)
"(II) entailed Family-estates of the Greater Nobility.1 — The old idea of a "family"
estate (" Familiengut ") retained vitality only among the different ..."
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