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Definition of Entailments
1. entailment [n] - See also: entailment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entailments
Literary usage of Entailments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Economics of Solon's Socialism— Details of the Massacre—Porphyry—Spread over
many Provinces of Proconsular Rome—entailments of Diocletian's Atrocity—Not ..."
2. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1876)
"HEREDITARY entailments IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND IN THE HUMAN FAMILY. BY JAMES LAW,
DVS, Professor of Veterinary Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, ..."
3. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1850)
"Dr. Smith insisted, from actual observation, that entailments were ... entailments
are recommended in monarchical governments, as a protection to the power ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1905)
"If the abolition of entailments under said act should be confined to cases of
actual corporeal possession of the estate tail in freehold, a large class of ..."
5. A Treatise on the Laws of Descent by Anson Bingham (1875)
"If they seem to be older, it is because they were begotten of the same iniquitous
parentage as feudal entailments, and partake of the same iniquitous ..."
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