Definition of Disentail

1. v. t. To free from entailment.

Definition of Disentail

1. Verb. (legal) To free from entailment. ¹

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Definition of Disentail

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disentail

disennobled
disennobles
disennobling
disenrol
disenroll
disenrolled
disenrolling
disenrolls
disenrols
disensanity
disenshrouded
disenslave
disenslaved
disenslaves
disenslaving
disentail (current term)
disentailed
disentailing
disentails
disentangle
disentangled
disentanglement
disentanglements
disentangler
disentanglers
disentangles
disentangling
disenter
disenterred
disenterring

Literary usage of Disentail

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and by John Condie Stewart Sandeman (1905)
"Direction to Entail—Insufficiency of Estate — Trust — disentail ... The schedule form of instrument of disentail declares the lands " free from the ..."

2. Key and Elphinstone's Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing by Thomas Key, Howard Warburton Elphinstone (1899)
"(e) If there has been a disentail and re-settlement, and any of the Variation, estates or charges, &c., under the original settlement are still in force, ..."

3. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"Constitution — Consideration—Consent to disentail—Annuity.—Held that an annuity granted by the heir in possession of an entailed estate, in favour of the ..."

4. The House of Lords Cases on Appeals and Writs of Error, Claims of Peerage by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly (1870)
"... tail can disentail and take the fee, the security for the issue is illusory. These are th« reasons for the construction on which my answers are founded. ..."

5. Forms and Precedents in Conveyancing with Introd. and Practical Notes by William Whittaker Barry (1872)
"Deed of disentail, (a) This Indenture, made &c., between AB, of &c. PRECE- (tenant in tail), of the first part, CD, of &c. (pro- DEW> 1>F tector), ..."

6. Digest of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, from 1800 to 1842; by Patrick Shaw (1864)
"In a petition for disentail of the whole estate, he neglected to set forth this ... In an application for disentail, the requisite consents of the three ..."

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