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Estate in tail — Tail Tail, n. [F. taille a cutting. See {Entail}, {Tally}.] (Law) Limitation; abridgment. Burrill. [1913 Webster] {Estate in tail}, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
estate in tail — An estate of inheritance, which, instead of descending to heirs generally, goes to the heirs of the donee s body, which means his lawful issue, his children, and through them to his grandchildren in a direct line, so long as his posterity endures … Black's law dictionary
estate — es·tate /i stāt/ n [Anglo French estat, literally, state, condition, from Old French, from Latin status, from stare to stand] 1: the interest of a particular degree, nature, quality, or extent that one has in land or other property compare fee;… … Law dictionary
estate tail — Tail Tail, n. [F. taille a cutting. See {Entail}, {Tally}.] (Law) Limitation; abridgment. Burrill. [1913 Webster] {Estate in tail}, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tail — Tail, n. [F. taille a cutting. See {Entail}, {Tally}.] (Law) Limitation; abridgment. Burrill. [1913 Webster] {Estate in tail}, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
tail general — An estate in tail granted to one and the heirs of his body begotten, which is called tail general because, how often soever such donee in tail be married, his issue in general by all and every such marriage is, in successive order, capable of… … Black's law dictionary
tail special — This denotes an estate in tail where the succession is restricted to certain heirs of the donee s body, and does not go to all of them in general; e.g., where lands and tenements are given to a man and the heirs of his body on Mary, his now wife … Black's law dictionary
tail, estate in — n. Inheritance that must be passed on to the recipient’s children and grandchildren in a direct line. See also fee tail The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008. tail, estate in … Law dictionary
estate tail — see estate 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
Tail — Tail, a. (Law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
