Entail (disambiguation)

Entail (from French tailler, to cut; the old derivation from tales haeredes is now abandoned) may refer to:

• Fee tail, a term of art in common law describing a limited form of succession.
• Entailment, a logical relation between sentences of a formal language.
  • Entailment (pragmatics), the use of the term in pragmatics.
• In architecture (obsolete), an ornamental device sunk in the ground of stone or brass, and subsequently filled in with marble, mosaic or enamel: see inlay.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.