Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of destroying an entail, or an estate in fee tail.
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He was sent as representative from Valencia to the Cortes (1858-65), where, as leader of the royalists in the House of Representatives, he delivered many eloquent discourses against the disentailment laws, in defence of Catholic union, in reprobation of despoiling the Pope of his temporal power, and on other vital questions touching the Church and Spain.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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