n. An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A Scotch form of tail.
Word Usage
"“Certainly, and some of them very good ones,” said the lawyer; “as in the common case of an heir of entail, where deed of provision and tailzie is maist ordinarily implemented by taking up name and arms.”"