Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To convert (an entailed estate) to an absolute title.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or operation of disentailing or breaking the entail of an estate.
- To free from entail; break the entail of: as, to
disentail an estate. - To free from connections; divest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Law) To free from entailment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb law To free from
entailment .
Etymologies
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dis- + entail
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Examples
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His boy, indeed, would take an estate tail — and could disentail whenever — if ever — he came of age.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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His boy, indeed, would take an estate tail -- and could disentail whenever -- if ever -- he came of age.
Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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