verb
- present participle of disentail; to free (an estate or property) from entail; to remove the legal restrictions that limit inheritance to a specific line of heirs
Usage: legal/historical; chiefly British
noun
- the act or process of removing entail from an estate or property
Usage: legal/historical; chiefly British
Examples
- The landowner pursued disentailing his estate to allow greater flexibility in inheritance.
- Disentailing the property required legal proceedings and the consent of all interested parties.
- By disentailing the family lands, he freed future generations from restrictive inheritance laws.
- The process of disentailing took several years to complete through the courts.
- She was disentailing her grandmother's estate to distribute it more fairly among her children.