Tail Special
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An estate tail granted to one and certain only of the heirs of his body, as those to be begotten on his then wife.
2 Bl. Comm. 113.
TAILLE (French). In Old Frencli Law. A tax or assessment levied by the king, or by any great lord, upon his subjects.
Brande.
In Old English Law. The fee which is opposed to fee simple, because it is so minced or pared that it is not in the owner's free power to dispose of it, but it is, by the first giver, cut or divided from all other, and tied to the issue of the donee, — in short, an estate tail.