entailment
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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
Increase of faculty by exercise, hereditary entailment of gains, and consequent progressive adaptation, were prominent ideas in this treatise.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
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
Hence, we shall content ourselves with calling attention to a few facts of great importance respecting the conditions which imperatively forbid marriage, and which cannot be violated without the certain entailment of great suffering.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg
Four States declared in their constitutions against the entailment of estates, and primogeniture was abolished in aristocratic Virginia.
From The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union by Max Farrand
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