Fee-tail (Verb)
Meaning
Limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs.
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- The estate was originally intended to be fee-tail in the male line, with only direct descendants allowed to inherit the property.
- To prevent the property from being sold outside of the family, the patriarch decided to fee-tail it to his sons and their heirs.
- The entailment was made to fee-tail the estate to every future Baron in the line of succession.
- The law required the creation of a trust to fee-tail the property, thus restricting the power of the current owner to transfer the land outside of the designated descendants.
- The dying noble's wish was to fee-tail the mansion and surrounding lands to his direct male heirs only.