entailed estate

  • 1Entailed — 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… …

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  • 2entailed — en·tail || ɪn teɪl n. legal limitation which determines who may inherit an estate or property; predetermined succession for a position or office v. intail, involve, cause; require; demand; set a limitation on who may inherit an estate or… …

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  • 3entailed-money — Money to be applied on account of the purchase of an estate tail …

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  • 4Fee tail — Entail redirects here. For other uses, see Entail (disambiguation). Property law …

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  • 5entail — en·tail 1 /in tāl/ vt [Middle English entaillen, from en , causative prefix + taille restriction on inheritance see tail]: to make (an estate in real property) a fee tail: limit the descent of (real property) by restricting inheritance to… …

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  • 6Crown land — In Commonwealth realms, Crown land is an area belonging to the monarch ( the Crown ), the equivalent of an entailed estate that passed with the monarchy and could not be alienated from it. In the United Kingdom and during the British Empire, the… …

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  • 7en|tail´er — en|tail «ehn TAYL», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to impose or require: »Owning an automobile entailed greater expense than he had expected. 2. to limit the inheritance of (property or right) to a specified line of heirs so that it cannot be left to… …

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  • 8en|tail — «ehn TAYL», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to impose or require: »Owning an automobile entailed greater expense than he had expected. 2. to limit the inheritance of (property or right) to a specified line of heirs so that it cannot be left to anyone else.… …

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  • 9fee tail — noun a fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away • Hypernyms: ↑fee * * * noun (plural fees tail) Etymology: Middle English fee taille, from Anglo French fé taillé, from Old French fé fee, fief +… …

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  • 10Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland — (1 August 1584 ndash; 30 May 1630) was the only child of Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton and his wife Philadelphia Carey, a relative maternally of Elizabeth I of England. He was created Earl of Sunderland on 19 June 1627. In 1609 he… …

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