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Webster 1913 Edition

Entailment

En-tail′ment

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Noun.
1.
The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
2.
The condition of being entailed.
3.
A thing entailed.
Brutality as an hereditary
entailment
becomes an ever weakening force.
R. L. Dugdale.

Webster 1828 Edition

Entailment

ENTA'ILMENT

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Noun.
The act of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent, or of limiting the descent to a particular heir or heirs.
1.
The act of settling unalienable on a man and his heirs.

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