Fee-Tail
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
An estate tail; an estate of inheritance given to a man and the heirs of his body, or limited to certain classes of particular heirs. It corresponds to the feudwm talliatum of the feudal law, and the idea is believed to have been berrowed from the Roman law, where, by way of jidei commissa, lands might be entailed upon children and freedmen and their descendants, with restrictions as to alienation.
1 Washb. Real Prop. *66.