entailment

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Increase of faculty by exercise, hereditary entailment of gains, and consequent progressive adaptation, were prominent ideas in this treatise.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

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 Farrand, Max

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 Hackett, Francis

Ownership is not complicated in any way with magisterial duties or prestige or entailment, as in England.

From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson

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 Perry, Ralph Barton