Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Law To release (an estate) from entail.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To free from entail; break the entail of: as, to disentail an estate.
- To free from connections; divest.
- n. The act or operation of disentailing or breaking the entail of an estate.
Wiktionary
- v. law To free from entailment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. (Law) To free from entailment.
Etymologies
- dis- + entail (Wiktionary)
Examples
“His boy, indeed, would take an estate tail — and could disentail whenever — if ever — he came of age.”
“His boy, indeed, would take an estate tail -- and could disentail whenever -- if ever -- he came of age.”
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