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Several Tail

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

An entail severally to two; as, if land is given to two men and their wives, and to the heirs of their bodies begotten. Here the donees have a joint estate for their two lives, and yet they have a several inheritance, because the issue of the one shall have his moiety, and the issue of the other the other moiety. Cowell.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An entail severally to two; as, if land is given to two men and their wives, and to the heirs of their bodies begotten; here the donees have a joint estate for their two lives, and yet they have a several inheritance, because the issue of the one shall have his moiety, and the issue of the other the other moiety. Cowell.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An entail severally to two; as if land is given to two men and their wives, and to the heirs of their bodies begotten ; here the donees have a j'oint estate for their two lives, and yet they have a several inheritance, because the issue of the one shall bave his moiety, and the issue of the other the other moiety. Cowell.

Defined under Estate In Tail in Black's Law Dictionary.