D defs.my
Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Entailment

· En·tail·ment · IPA /ɛnˈteɪl.mənt/
01 n. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
  1. 1.
    The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
  2. 2.
    The condition of being entailed.
  3. 3.
    A thing entailed.
    “Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force.” — R. L. Dugdale.