1. Have as a logical consequence
   "Higher costs entail reduced profits";
   - imply, mean
    
2. Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
   "What does this move entail?";
   - implicate
    
3. Limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs
   "The nobleman entailed his estate to ensure it remained within the family";
   - fee-tail

1. Land received by fee tail
   "The ancestral estate was passed down as an entail through generations"
    
2. The act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple
   "The entail of the estate ensured it would remain in the family for generations"

Derived forms: entailed, entailing, entails

Type of: acres, bequeath, change, demesne, estate, land, landed estate, lead, leave, necessitate, will

Encyclopedia: Entail