Meaning

noun land received by fee tail

noun the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple

verb have as a logical consequence

originFrom Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).

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