Disentail

Quick meaning: Disentail is a verb meaning (law) The act of freeing from entailment.

Meaning

(law) The act of freeing from entailment.

More Meanings

1. (archaic, law) To free from entailment.

Example Sentences

A form of the instrument of disentail is appended to the Act of 1848.

In 1907 the heir of entail in possession, born in 1864, presented a petition to disentail, in which he claimed to be entitled to do so without consent of the next heir.

A great advance was made in the relaxations of the fetters of an entail, and a radical change was made in the position of the heir, by the Rutherfurd Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Viet. 3. 36), which first gave the heir in possession power to disentail.

If the estates of such heir in possession shall be sequestrated for debt incurred after the passing of this Act, the trustee on his estate shall be entitled to apply to the court for authority to disentail the estate, and the court shall proceed as under the former section.

Word Forms

• disentails
• disentailing
• disentailed

Related Words

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