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entail
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synonyms: fee tail ???
tags: [britain] [law]
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Definition:significant restrictions put on what could be done to the estate by that eldest son to ensure that when he died his eldest son in turn would inherit the estate intact, and not mortgated or split up or - God forbid - not at all because, let us say, it had somehow been sold by his father.Daniel Pool. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. p90. (1993)
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I said, 'My dear, I won't refuse to give you away.' I had spoken strongly before. But I can cut off the entail, you know. It will cost money and be troublesome; but I can do it, you know."
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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"[...] Lord Ingram’s estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost.”
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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"He would be the heir to the estate because that is entailed. He would also be the heir to the money unless it were willed otherwise by the present owner, who can, of course, do what he likes with it."
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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“You have cut off the entail, my love.”
Charles DIckens. The Pickwick Papers (1837)
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he tried to cut off the entail, and leave all the property away to found a monastery abroad, of which he prayed that some day little Squire Patrick might be the reverend father.
Elizabeth Gaskell. Curious if True: Stange Tales (1859)
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Par. Sir, for a cardecue he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it, and cut th’ entail from all remainders, and a perpetual succession for it perpetually.
William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well
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