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Entailment definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ENTA'ILMENT, n. 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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications" [syn: deduction, entailment, implication]

Merriam Webster's

noun see entail I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Entailment En*tail"ment, n. 1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent. 2. The condition of being entailed. 3. A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. --R. L. Dugdale.