Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

tail special

A tail limited to specified heirs of the donee's body. - Also termed special tail. "Estates-tail are either general, or special . Tenant in tail-special is where the gift is restrained to certain heirs and does not go to all of them in general. And this may happen in several ways. I shall instance in only one: as where lands and tenements are given to a man and the heirs of his body, on Mary his now wife to be begotten; here no issue can inherit, but such special issue as is engendered, between them two; not such as the husband may have by another wife: and therefore it is called special tail." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 113-14 (1766).