entailment
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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
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
The emancipated Negro struggles up to-day against many obstacles, the entailment of a brutal slavery.
From The Negro Problem by Timothy Thomas Fortune
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
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