Entail

A fee abridged or limited to the issue, or certain classes of issue, instead of descending to all the heirs. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 66; Cowell; 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 112, note. To restrict the inheritance of lands to a particular class of issue. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 66; 2 Sharswood, BL Comm. 113. See "Estates;" "Tail."

A fee abridged or limited to the issue, or certain classes of issue, instead of descending to all the heirs. 1 Washb. R. P. 66; 2 Bla. Com. 112, n.; Wms. R. P. 61. To restrict the inheritance of lands to a particular class of issue. 1 Washb. R. P. 66; 2 Bla. Com. 113. See Fee -Tail.

v. To settle or limit the succession to real property; to create an estate tell. Entail, in legal treatises, is used to signify an estate tail, especially with reference to the restraint which such an estate imposes upon iis 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 signify a succession of life-estates, as when it is said that "an entail ends with A.," meaning that A. is the first person who is entitled to bar or cat off the entail, being in law the first tenant in tail. Mozley & Whitley.
—Break or bar an entail. To free an estate from the limitations imposed by an entail and permit its free disposition, anciently by means of a fine or common recovery, but now by deed in which the tenant and next heir join.
—Quasi entail. An estate pur autre vie may be granted, not only to a man and his heirs, but to a man and the heirs of his body, which is termed a "quasi entail;" the interest so granted not being properly an estate-tail, (for the statute De Donis applies only where the subject of the entail is an estate of inheritance,) but yet so far in the nature of an estate-tail that it will go to the heir of the body as special occupant during the life of the cestui gue vie, in the same manner as an estate of inheritance would descend, if limited to the grantee and the heirs of his body. Wharton.

To create an estate tail.

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.

See Tail.

To create an estate tail. Entailed: settled in tail or strict settlement. The word as commonly used means the latter.

[L. Fr. entailU.l A fee entailed; that is, abridged, curtailed or limited to certain heirs.* Cowell. Blount, 2 Bl. Com. 112, et seq. See To entail, Fee tail. To ENTAIL, [from L. Fr. tailler, from L. Lat. talliare, to cut, cut off or limit.] To create an estate in tail; to settle an estate according to a certain rule of descent; to limit to certain heirs.* 2 Bl. Com. 113, et seq. See Tail.