- a word derived from entailed.
Example Sentences
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He paid his creditors, no one knew how, for his father had left nothing to him unentailed; and once out of money difficulties, he seemed in no hurry to plunge into them again.
From The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Cholmondeley, Mary
Your grandfather made a legal conveyance of an unentailed property, got some ready money,—how much I never knew,—and came away.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
Month by month I realized that it was more and more difficult to get the brokers to renew my bills, or to cash any further post-obits upon an unentailed property.
From Tales of Terror and Mystery by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
Our unentailed possessions in Courland are, as you are aware, considerable; the half that falls to me I am willing to renounce, but in favour of his family.
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
You see his property was unentailed and he left it all to me.
From The Ancient Allan by Haggard, Henry Rider