entailment

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

But here, besides the discrepancies in the entailment of services, there are enormous discrepancies in sentiment to start with, and policies still to be accepted and cemented, and European prejudices to be suppressed or reconciled.

From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett

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

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