Definition of Entil
Entail, a term in law which came to be used in connection with the
practice of limiting the inheritance of estates to a certain restricted
line of heirs. Attempts of the kind, which arise naturally out of the
deeply-seated desire which men have to preserve property—especially
landed estates—in their own families, are of ancient date; but the
system as understood now, involving the principle of primogeniture, owes
its origin to the feudal system. Sometimes the succession was limited to
the male issue, but this was by no means an invariable practice; in
modern times the system has been, by a succession of Acts of Parliaments
(notably the Cairns Act of 1882), greatly modified, and greater powers
given to the actual owner of alienating the estates to which he has
succeeded, a process which is called "breaking the entail."
- Wikipedia
En*tail" (?), n. [OE. entaile
carving, OF. entaille, F., an incision, fr. entailler
to cut away; pref. en- (L. in) + tailler to cut;
LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or
limited. See Tail limitation, Tailor.]
1. That which is entailed. Hence:
(Law) (a) An estate in fee entailed, or
limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
(b) The rule by which the descent is
fixed.
A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of
alienating their estates. Hume.
2. Delicately carved ornamental work;
intaglio. [Obs.] "A work of rich entail."
Spenser.
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
descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an
heritage.
Allowing them to entail their
estates. Hume.
I here entail
The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.
Shak.
2. To appoint hereditary possessor.
[Obs.]
To entail him and his heirs unto the
crown. Shak.
3. To cut or carve in an ornamental
way. [Obs.]
Entailed with curious antics.
Spenser.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- That which is entailed. Hence:
An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
The rule by which the descent is fixed.
:"A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates." — Hume.
- (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
"A work of rich entail." — Spenser.
- To imply or require.
This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
- To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
"Allowing them to entail their estates."— Hume.
"I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever." — Shakespeare
- (obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
"To entail him and his heirs unto the crown."— Shakespeare
- (obsolete) To cut or carve in a ornamental way.
"Entailed with curious antics." — Spenser.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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