- to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence: a loss entailing no regret.
- to impose as a burden: Success entails hard work.
- to limit the passage of (real estate) to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be transferred or bequeathed to anyone else.
- to cause (anything) to descend to a fixed series of possessors.
- the act of entailing.
- the state of being entailed.
- any predetermined order of succession, as to an office.
- something that is entailed, as an estate.
- the rule of descent settled for an estate.
- to bring about or impose by necessity; have as a necessary consequence
- to restrict (the descent of an estate) to a designated line of heirs
- to have as a necessary consequence
- property law
- the restriction imposed by entailing an estate
- an estate that has been entailed
