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Definition of Entails

Entail
Entail En*tail", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Entailing.] [OE. entailen to carve, OF. entailler. See Entail, n.] 1. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage. Allowing them to entail their estates. --Hume. I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. --Shak. 2. To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.] To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. --Shak. 3. To cut or carve in a ornamental way. [Obs.] Entailed with curious antics. --Spenser.
Entail
Entail En*tail", n. [OE. entaile carving, OF. entaille, F., an incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- (L. in) + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or limited. See Tail limitation, Tailor.] 1. That which is entailed. Hence: (Law) (a) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. (b) The rule by which the descent is fixed. A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. --Hume. 2. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] ``A work of rich entail.' --Spenser.

Meaning of Entails from wikipedia

- Look up entail or entailment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Entail may refer to: Fee tail, a term of art in common law describing a limited form...
- Linguistic entailments are entailments which arise in natural language. If a sentence A entails a sentence B, sentence A cannot be true without B being...
- the expression "run" since "John ran fast" entails "John ran," but not conversely. But a downward-entailing context reverses this strength; for example...
- expressed by t.) The relation is directional because even if "t entails h", the reverse "h entails t" is much less certain. Determining whether this relationship...
- Entail Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to entails. The Entail (Scotland) Act 1914...
- Monotonicity of entailment is a property of many logical systems such that if a sentence follows deductively from a given set of sentences then it also...
- Entailment (ius aviti****, Ősiség, Aviticitas) was an act that did not allow the selling of the land rendering it (i.e. the estate) inalienable. This was...
- Idempotency of entailment is a property of logical systems that states that one may derive the same consequences from many instances of a hypothesis as...
- perpetuities were enacted, which restricted entails to a maximum number of lives.[citation needed] An entail also had the effect of disallowing illegitimate...
- Logical consequence (also entailment) is a fundamental concept in logic which describes the relationship between statements that hold true when one statement...