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To abridge, settle, or limit succession to real property. An estate whose succession is limited to certain people rather than being passed to all heirs. In real property, a fee tail is the conveyance of land subject to certain limitations or restrictions, namely, that it may only descend to certain specified heirs. entail verb adferre, call for, demand, force, impel, innlude as a necessary consequence, involve, make incumbent, make inescapable, make necessary, make requisite, make unavoidable, necessitate, need, obligate, occasion, require See also: bequest, compel, concern, consist, involve, require TO ENTAIL. To create an estate tail. Vide Tail. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The study administered questionnaires to a larger group of students to ascertain Korean language learners' prior exposure to Korean language and culture, identity entailments with the target language. But the metaphor's entailments move in the direction of an administration of "God's mysteries" by those, like Paul and Apollos, who are "servants and household managers" (1 Cor 4:1). Let us pass over the evasion and unexplained entailment of "thus" in the last line above. |
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