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                  Eng Ent

                  entail (or tailzie)

                  A deed by which the legal course of succession to lands could be altered and another one substituted, or by which the descent of the lands could be secured to a specified succession of heirs and substitutes. The Entail (Scotland) Act 1914 prevented the creation of new entails after that date.