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Special Tail

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

Where an estate tail is limited to the children of two given parents, as to "A. and the heirs of his body by B., his wife." 1 Steph. Comm. 244.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

See Estate Tail. volume of some other body,' taken as the standard or unit. This standard is usually