Entail was a legal term meaning that a landed estate was tied up in such a way that the person inheriting it would have only its income and could not sell or mortgage it. Along with primogeniture, it was the legal basis of the British aristocracyâ€(tm)s ability to transmit their great estates intact down through the centuries.
system Form of inheritance by which land passed to the owner's male descendents or, if he had no male heir, to the crown. Entail checked Hungary's economic development because it prevented the nobles from selling their land or using it as collateral to obtain credit.
the legal incumbrance requiring that real property descend by inheritance undivided and only along a specified line
An estate limited in succession to issue or to certain classes of issue, rather than descending to all heirs.
to restrict the inheritance of land to specific individuals.
Settlement of a property stating that it must descend in a particular fashion (usually through heirs male) and may not be sold or otherwise disposed of.
limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs
system of fixed succession to land which cannot be altered by a will.
the settlement of property so that it must descend in a specified manner, for example from father to eldest son or husband to wife; the property must not be sold or otherwise disposed of
to limit the owner's inheritance to their lineal descendants or to a particular class.
to entail is to restrict the inheritance of land to a specific group of heirs, such as an individual's sons.
to devise land on a number of persons in succession, i.e. "to my son, and upon his death, to his son," etc.
or tailzie. A deed by which the legal course of succession to lands can be altered and another one substituted, or by which the descent of the lands can be secured to a specified succession of heirs and substitutes entry of an heir acceptance of an heir to landed property by the feudal superior of the property eodem die"on the same day" error, summons of a legal action to get someone's service as heir to a property annulled, on the quite reasonable grounds that an inquest had identified the wrong person as heir because a nearer heir existed
a legal term referring to property, which meant that a landed estate was tied up in such a way that it could be passed on to one's heir after the owner's death, but the heir could not sell the property. This allowed the great aristocratic families to protect their huge estates from being broken up and sold off piece by piece over generations - highly important when wealth rested in having land.