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entail
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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.



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21) The most sustained critique of Michelman's reading of Rawls occurs in an article by Professor Forbath arguing that Rawls's theory supports a vision of social citizenship whose entailments go beyond welfare rights to include "a right to decent work" as a core element of the social bases of self-respect.
But mathematics is, in part, a language - not just a set of logical relationships and entailments that seems deeper than words, but a set of notations that allow us to discover those relationships.
To construct coterie as a reading strategy is thus an interpretive move and a political claim more than it is a historical task: Shaw is obliged to engage each of the above caveats about the limits of coterie while using the concept to frame new motivations and entailments of O'Hara's poetry in both intimate and public contexts.
 
 
 
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