[f. ENTAIL v.2 + -MENT.] The action of entailing (property).
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 19. By which new way of entaylement … God … was … made his by peculiar Interest, and Appropriation.
1832. Marryat, N. Forster, II. vii. 83. How much society in general is affected by the entailment of property in aristocratical families upon the male heir.
1875. T. Hill, True Order Studies, 128. This, as we Americans think, is the condition of persons living in Great Britain, where laws of primogeniture, entailment of estates, difficulties in conveyancing, guilds and trades unions, so utterly prevent freedom of trade in the two prime raw materials, land and labor, as absolutely to prevent an Englishman from knowing what freedom means.
