entail an estate tail or fee tail. In England, a settlement of land, des- tined to the grantee and the heirs of his body (or some more special destination; initially, such settlements rendered the land inalienable,

i.e. not transferable to another owner, but after 1472 it came to be accepted that the entail could in certain circumstances be barred and the land made alienable). The whole law of entail was relaxed by the Fines and Recoveries Act 1832 and remodelled by the 1925 Property

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Reforms, making it possible to entail personal property and to bar an entail by will. Since the coming into force in 1997 of the Trusts of Land and Appointments of Trustees Act 1996 entailed interest cannot exist in equity, even by way of a trust.

In Scotland, entails (also known as tailzies, 'z' silent) were made pos- sible by the Entail Act of 1683, provision being made for the setting up of a Register of Entails, publicising which estates were entailed. As, initially, in England, entailing land in Scotland made that land inalienable. The Entail Amendment (Scotland) Act 1848 established a procedure whereby entails could be barred, and in 1914 it was pro- vided by the Entail (Scotland) Act that no future entails of land in Scotland would be permitted, save to implement a direction to entail combined in a will executed before the 1914 Act came into force.

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