entailment
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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
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
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
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
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
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