entailment Definition

entail
verb entailed, entailing

1. To have something as a necessary result or requirement.

Thesaurus: involve, necessitate, require, cause, impose, demand, occasion, imply.
2. law.
To bequeath (property) to one's descendants, not allowing them the option to sell it.
Form: entail something on someone (usually)

noun

1. The practice of entailing (property).
2. Property which has been entailed.
3. The successive heirs to property.

Derivative: entailment
noun

Etymology: 14c: from tail².