Entail
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
n. A fee abridged or limited to the issue, or certain classes of issue, instead of descending to ail the heirs.
1 Washb, Real Prop. 66; Cowell; 2 Bl. Comm. 112, note.
Entail, in legal treatises, is used to signify an estate tail, especially with reference to the restraint which such an estate imposes upon its owner, or, in other words, the points wherein such an estate differs from an estate in fee-simple. And this is often its popular sense; but sometimes it is, in popular language, used differently, so as to siguify a succession of life-estates, as when itis said that “an entail ends with A.,” meaning that A. is the first person who is entitled to bar or cut off the entail, being in law the first tenant in tail Mozley & Whitley.