Entail
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in law, restriction of inheritance to a limited class of descendants for at least several generations.
TO ENTAIL. To create an estate tail. Vide Tail.
ENTIRE. That which is not divided; that which is whole.
Where the case entails the inattentive plaintiff against the inattentive defendant, the justifications for the rule are eliminated, and nearly all jurisdictions refuse to apply it.
Legal custody A child custody decision which entails the right to make, or participate in, the significant decisions affecting a child's health and welfare (compare with physical custody and joint custody).
Expanded Legal Definition of Legal CitationLegal Custody A child custody decision which entails the right to make, or participate in, ...
DE DONIS CONDITIONALIBUS, a chapter of the statute of Westminster the Second (1285) which originated the law of entail. Strictly speaking, a form of entail was known before the Norman feudal law had been domesticated in England.
see also entail De Donis Conditionalibus in the Important Laws section
compare fee simple conditional at fee simple
The fee tail developed out of the fee simple conditional as a means to ensure that property would remain intact and in the family.
Simply put, Socratic instruction entails directed questioning and limited lecturing. There are law professors who are alleged to have gone an entire semester without uttering a declarative statement.
In some jurisdictions, it entails a conveyance of the land until the debt is paid in full.
TALZIE, HEIR IN.
Scotch law. Heirs of talzie or tailzie, are heirs of estates entailed. 1 Bell~s Com. 47. ... more ...
But this truism is not to be confused with the quite distinct proposition that certain claims (because of the substance of the rights entailed, rather than the advantage to a litigant in winning his claim sooner) should be resolved before trial.
joint venture - An association of persons jointly undertaking some commercial enterprise. Unlike a partnership, a joint venture does not entail a continuing relationship among the parties.
"of his own wrong"; a person who is not a regularly appointed trustee but because of his or her intermeddling with the trust and the exercise of some control over the trust property, can be held by a court as "constructive" trustee which entails ...
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