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entail (verb), entails; entailed; entailing
1. To restrict the future ownership of real estate to particular descendants, through instructions written into a will: When Linda’s aunt went to the lawyer about her testament, she had him entail her mansion to her niece.
2. To bestow or to impose on a person or a specified succession of heirs: In Janet’s grandfather’s will, the villa was entailed to his youngest daughter, Janet’s mother.
3. To have, to impose, or to require as a necessary accompaniment or consequence: Joe was told that the investment entailed a high risk.
4. Etymology: from about 1340, "convert (an estate) into 'fee tail' (feudum talliatum)"; from en-, "make" + taile, "legal limitation"; especially, of inheritance, ruling who succeeds in ownership and preventing it from being sold off; from Anglo-French taile; from Old French taillie, past participle of taillier, "allot, cut to shape"; from Late Latin taliare.
To cause or to require as a necessary consequence.
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