entailment

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENTA'ILMENT, noun The act of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent, or of limiting the descent to a particular heir or heirs. 1. The act of settling unalienable on a man and his heirs.
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