entailment

1. (nonstandard) An entail.Examples: "And notwithstanding this turning clause was put in, yet it was afterwards construed to be a will giving an entailment of the real property to the old man's grandchildren, which was not the case."; "Her answer cannily goes to the mercenary heart of the substance of Wortley's letter: the failure of the marriage negotiation because of his refusual to pay the price of placing an entailment on his estate ."; "The de Bourghs have lived here for five hundred years, the name passing down through sons and daughters, for there is no entailment on the estate and so no difficulty about a female inheriting."countablenonstandarduncountable