entailment

plural entailments · alternative intailment

1. countableuncountableThe act of logically entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.

   An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication.

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   Entailment does not imply causation: if a set of premisses entail a conclusion, that does not mean (necessarily) that they cause that conclusion to be true.

   That's not an extension at all. It's simply an obvious entailment of the original promise.

   2022 May 25, Michael C. Dorf, “Failure to Extend a Precedent Versus Failure to Apply It: A Comment on Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez”, in Dorf on Law

   In general, every language (and, hence, every language of every theory) has numerous entailment relations on it.

   2023, JC Beall, Michael DeVito, Entailment, Contradiction, and Christian Theism

   The barriers that this book is about —barriers to entailment — concern the relation of logical consequence ( or its lack. )

   2023, Gillian K. Russell, Barriers to Entailment, page 16

2. countableuncountableThe act of setting up an entail to restrict inheritance.

   On the other hand, the "perpetual entailment of estates" was a favorite of the common law,—supporting, as it did, the right of primogeniture, and growing out of the feudal system.

   1903, The Pacific Reporter - Volume 71, page 292

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   That no entailment of lands shall continue to entail Robinson etc. the same, in any case whatever, longer than the life of the person to whom the same hath been, or shall be, first devised, by such entailment.

   1875, New Jersey Law Reports - Volume 5, page 814

   Even in the nineteenth century, and especially in comparison with England, commentators repeatedly highlighted how important the abolition of entailment and primogeniture was to preventing the dynastic concentration of wealth.

   2018, Jens Beckert, Inherited Wealth, page 163

3. countablenonstandarduncountableAn entail.

   The de Bourghs have lived here for five hundred years, the name passing down through sons and daughters, for there is no entailment on the estate and so no difficulty about a female inheriting.

   2011, Amanda Grange, Wickham's Diary, page 137

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   And notwithstanding this turning clause was put in, yet it was afterwards construed to be a will giving an entailment of the real property to the old man's grandchildren, which was not the case.

   1890, Robert Andrew Sherrard, Thomas Johnson Sherrard ·, The Sherrard Family of Steubenville, page 241

   Her answer cannily goes to the mercenary heart of the substance of Wortley's letter: the failure of the marriage negotiation because of his refusual to pay the price of placing an entailment on his estate .

   2002, Susan M. Fitzmaurice, The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English, page 213