fee-tail

An archaic legal term meaning to grant an estate in tail (i.e., with restricted inheritance to a specific line of heirs).

• 🌐فعل قانوني قديم يعني توريث ملكية عقارية بشرط قصر الإرث على فئة معينة من الورثة أو سلالة محددة، بحيث لا يجوز التصرف الحر بها.

1. Limit inheritance C2 formal british legal

   To restrict the inheritance of an estate or property to a specific line of heirs, typically the direct descendants of the original owner.

   • The land was fee-tailed to the eldest son for generations.
   • The will fee-tailed the manor to the male heirs of the family.
   • By fee-tailing the estate, the owner prevented it from being sold outside the family.

   🌐تقييد الإرث

   المرادفات: entail

• fee-tailed past participle
• fee-tailed past simple
• fee-tailing present participle
• fee-tails third person singular