entailed estate

At his death her entailed estate returned to her family.

Upon Alfred's death last year, his cousin had inherited the entailed estate.

"An entailed estate is too solid and substantial," objected Jimmy.

The revenues of the entailed estates had been seized.

The heir to an entailed estate could not sell the land, nor usually devise it to, for example, an illegitimate child.

He inherited the Grange and the entailed estate when Charles died. "

It isn't classed as an available asset; and besides, I'm against entailed estates, anyhow.

This may happen with entailed estates, or when property is left in trust to care for a child or relative without heirs.

"When he dies, his title shall revert to the crown, along with his entailed estate.

Former fortified entailed estates (Fideikommiss) of the family:

The palace was sold by the entailed estate of Restrup, which had been established in 1756 by Levertzau, the late owner.

The area has grown up around the entailed estate of Årup and the pertaining parish of Ivetofta.

Torres de Portugal founded his entailed estate (mayorazgo) in Seville on 12 October 1592.

At the same time he emerged a squire of Holstein, making the manor house of Breitenburg his entailed estate.

The title is held by one person at a time and is tied to an entailed estate (Fideikommiss), Gut Niendorf.

To the reformers the guilds, like entailed estates, were yet another historical hindrance (estorbo ) to progress, a consecration of the forces of routine.

His sister Isabel, inherited the lands and earldom of Mar, and the un entailed estates of Douglas.

Like the church, the landed aristocracy felt threatened by O'Higgins, resenting his attempts to eliminate noble titles and, more important, to eliminate entailed estates.

Such a so-called "allodified fief" became similar to a family entailed estate (Familienfideikommiss); often it was also explicitly converted into a fee tail (Fideikommissgut).

Molly grows up in the dower house of the title, a residence ordinarily reserved for the widow once an entailed estate has been passed on to the older son.

The minifundium is frequently to be found side by side with the latifundium; indeed the existence of the great entailed estates increased the pressure of men on the land.

In the meantime, the entailed estate passed not to his nearest relative (who was only a relative of the half blood) but to the descendants of his great-aunts.

Among the aristocracy the growth of vast entails was consistently favoured by lawyers' evasions of the 'doctrine of incompatibility', designed to prevent accumulation of entailed estates.

Cavendish's spending strained his resources, and he procured a private act of parliament to enable him to sell some of the entailed estates in discharge of his debts in 1628.

In Commonwealth realms, Crown land is an area belonging to the monarch ("the Crown"), the equivalent of an entailed estate that passed with the monarchy and could not be alienated from it.