Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Barring of entail
the freeing of an estate from the limitations imposed by an entail and permit its free disposition. A this was anciently, done by means of a fine or common recovery, but later by deed in which the tenant and next heir join. - also termed breaking of entail. See entail.
Disentailment
n. The act or process by which a tenant in tail bars the entail on an estate and converts it into a fee simple, thereby nullifying the rights of any later claimant to the fee tail. - disentail, ub.
Entail
ub. 1. To make necessary; to involve <responding to this onerous discovery will entail countless hours of work>. 2. To limit the inheritance of (an estate) to only the owner's issue or class of issue, so that none of the heirs can transfer the estate <the grantor entailed the property through a so-called "tail female" >. See FEE TAIL.
Entailed
adj. Settled or limited to specified heirs or in tail <entailed gifts>. entailed estate. See FEE TAIL.
Entailment
n. 1. The act of entailing an estate. 2. An estate so entailed.
breaking of entail
See BARRING OF ENTAIL
disentailing deed
8ist. A tenant-in-tail's assurance that the estate tail will be barred and converted into an estate in fee. 0 The Fines and Recoveries Act (3 & 4 Will. 4 ch. 74) introduced this way of barring an entail. It authorized nearly every tenant in tail, if certain conditions were met, to dispose of the land in fee simple absolute and thus to defeat the rights of all persons claiming under the tenant.
disentailing statute
A statute regulating or prohibiting disentailing deeds. See disentailing deed under DEED.
quasi-entail
An estate pur autre vie that is granted to a person and the heirs of the person's body. ( The interest so granted is not properly an estate-tail (because it is not granted by inheritance), but it is similar enough that the interest will go to the heir of the body as special occupant during the life of the cestui que vie, in the same manner as an estate of inheritance would descend if limited to the grantee and the heirs of his body.