ENTAILMENT

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

2.
n.

The condition of being entailed.

3.
n.

A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.


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