entailment
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The emancipated Negro struggles up to-day against many obstacles, the entailment of a brutal slavery.
From The Negro Problem by Timothy Thomas Fortune
But there are patent reasons within the sphere of philosophy itself for entailment of activity and taking of stock.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
An Act of entailment can, it is true, be founded, but it is rarely permitted, being looked upon with disfavour for reasons of political economy.
From Round About the Carpathians by Andrew F. Crosse
Ownership is not complicated in any way with magisterial duties or prestige or entailment, as in England.
From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild
There were wanting, however, two great elements in the nation's institutions, to sustain in its pride and efficiency this peculiar advantage, to wit, the entailment of estates, and the right of primogeniture.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
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