Inheritance vs Entail - What's the difference?
inheritance | entail |
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
(lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
(lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
To imply or require.
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
* Allowing them to entail their estates. — .
* I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. — Shakespeare
(obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
* To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. — Shakespeare
(obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
* Entailed with curious antics. — .
That which is entailed. Hence:
* A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. — .
(obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
* A work of rich entail. — .
As nouns the difference between inheritance and entail
is that inheritance is the passing of title to an estate upon death while entail is that which is entailed hence:.As a verb entail is
to imply or require.inheritance
English
(wikipedia inheritance)Alternative forms
* enheritance (obsolete) * enheritaunce (obsolete) * inheritaunce (obsolete)Noun
References
* (EtymOnLine)entail
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Verb
(en verb)- This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
Derived terms
* entailmentNoun
(en noun)- An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- The rule by which the descent is fixed.
