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disentail

disentail verb: to free from entailment.

Verb

disentail (third-person singular simple present disentails, present participle disentailing, simple past and past participle disentailed)

  1. (archaic) To free from entailment.
    • If the estates of such heir in possession shall be sequestrated for debt incurred after the passing of this Act, the trustee on his estate shall be entitled to apply to the court for authority to disentail the estate, and the court shall proceed as under the former section.1883, Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac, page 179
    • A great advance was made in the relaxations of the fetters of an entail, and a radical change was made in the position of the heir, by the Rutherfurd Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Viet. 3. 36), which first gave the heir in possession power to disentail.1897, John Chisholm, Green's Encyclopaedia of the Law of Scotland - Volume 5, page 30

Noun

disentail

  1. The act of freeing from entailment.
    • A form of the instrument of disentail is appended to the Act of 1848.1882, Alexander Montgomerie Bell, Lectures on Conveyancing - Book 74, Volume 2, page 1051
    • Where the heir in possession of an entailed estate or the heir-apparent shall, together or separately, have secured by obligation in any marriage-contract prior to the passing of this Act, the descent of such estate upon the issue of the marriage, it shall not be competent for them to apply for or...1883, Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac, page 179

Forms of disentail

third-person singular presentdisentails
present participledisentailing
past participledisentailed
pastdisentailed

Origin of disentail

From dis- + entail.

Questions about disentail

What does disentail mean?
Disentail means to free from entailment.
What part of speech is disentail?
Disentail can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of disentail?
The past tense of disentail is disentailed.

Words near disentail in the dictionary

  1. disenshrouds
  2. disenslave
  3. disenslaved
  4. disenslaves
  5. disenslaving
  6. disentail
  7. disentailed
  8. disentailing
  9. disentailment
  10. disentailments
  11. disentails

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