entailed
adjectif C2En français : impliqué, substitué
- Having or resulting from a legal entail; pertaining to inheritance that is limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- That is required logically (by something); That has logical dependencies.
Dans la bibliothèque
Bennet’s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother’s fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children; and I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long ago to do something or other about it.”
There is no knowing how estates will go when once they come to be entailed.”
The consequence of it is, that Lady Lucas will have a daughter married before I have, and that Longbourn estate is just as much entailed as ever.
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