entailed
entailed adjective: having or resulting from a legal entail; pertaining to inheritance that is limited in descent to a particular class of issue. Also the simple past and past participle of entail.
Adjective
entailed (comparative more entailed, superlative most entailed)
- Having or resulting from a legal entail; pertaining to inheritance that is limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- The role, therefore, which prevented the alienation of entailed estates being thus broken in upon, fines and recoveries became the common modes of assurance in conveying that species of property.1846 March 28, William Hughes, “A Practical Commentary on The Law of Contracts Relating to Real Property”, in The Law Times, volume 6, page 534
- Entailed property must be considered by every one who knows thoroughly what society is, as anti-social. It has been set apart by selfish men for the sole benefit of their favoirite heirs, in order that they might be though its instrumentality enabled to live anti-socially, and to be excempt from...1851, John Sangster, The Rights and Duties of Property, page 110
- That is required logically (by something); That has logical dependencies.
- Needless to say, the unexplained emergent phenomenon (and the entailed system whose functions can explain it) or the not-yet-existing artifact (and the system required for its construction) can itself be anything from a very simple to a very complex entity.2006, Mats-Olov Olsson, Gunnar Sjöstedt, Systems Approaches and Their Application, page 332
- The relation of Keeper is an entailed role of pet dog, inasmuch as every pet dog has someone who is its keeper.2015, Alexander Williams, Arguments in Syntax and Semantics, page 84
Also used as
entailed is also the simple past and past participle of entail.
Examples of entailed in a sentence
- Entailed property must be considered by every one who knows thoroughly what society is, as anti-social.1851, John Sangster, The Rights and Duties of Property, page 110:
- As you saw in 1.5.1.3, an entailed interest (before 1926 known as a fee tail) was created by a disposition in favour of 'the heirs of the body' of a specified person.2020, Judith-Anne MacKenzie, Aruna Nair, Textbook on Land Law, page 332:
- PLC processes can be very entailed and question all parts of the organization, and some are light.2016, Anna N Schlegel, Truly Global, page 75:
Forms of entailed
| comparative | more entailed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most entailed |
Words formed from entailed
Questions about entailed
- What does entailed mean?
- Entailed means having or resulting from a legal entail; pertaining to inheritance that is limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- How do you use entailed in a sentence?
- Entailed property must be considered by every one who knows thoroughly what society is, as anti-social.
- What part of speech is entailed?
- Entailed is an adjective.
Words near entailed in the dictionary
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