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entailment

Variant of entail

transitive verb

  1. Law to limit the inheritance of (real property) to a specific line or class of heirs
  2. to cause or require as a necessary consequence; involve; necessitate: the plan entails work

noun

  1. an entailing or being entailed
  2. that which is entailed, as an estate
  3. necessary sequence, as the order of descent for an entailed inheritance

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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