单词 | statute of entails |
释义 | > as lemmasstatute of entails 1. The settlement of the succession of a landed estate, so that it cannot be bequeathed at pleasure by any one possessor; the rule of descent settled for any estate; the fixed or prescribed line of devolution. Also in phrases: to break, cut (off) the entail, statute of entails, entail male. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > entailing or entail tail1373 entailc1380 tailye1391 entailinga1538 entailmenta1641 c1380 [see sense 2a]. 1467 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 47 I wylle that myn executors and myn feffeis see the best mene that they can in restoryng ageyn to the olde intaile of the seid place. 1467 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 50 Not conteynyd in myne dede of entayle. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 138 To his heires male by an especial Entaile aforesaid. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 281 For a Cardceue he will..cut th' intaile from all remainders. 1660 R. Burney Κέρδιστον Δῶρον 54 Transcendent to the ordinary course of the Lawes in passing of Fines and cutting of the Entails. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iv. 16 His Sister Peg's Name being in the Entail, he could not make a thorough Settlement without her Consent. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxviii. 405 My Father too..might have cut off the Intail. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1802) I. i. 223 By introducing entails..to render their possessions unalienable and everlasting. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. viii. 142 This son was to join in cutting off the entail . View more context for this quotation 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 252 The statute of entails..is also to be referred to this reign. 1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. II. iii. 54 Entails were not perpetual; but land was always in the market. < as lemmas |
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