An estate tail; an estate of inheritance given to a man and the heirs of his body, or limited to certain classes of pnr-tlcular heirs. It corresponds to the feud uni talliatum- Qf the feudal law, aud the Idea is believed to have been borrowed from the Ro-mau law, where, by way of fidei commissa, lands might be entailed upon children and freedmen and their descendants, with restric-tions as to alienation. 1 washb. Real Prop. *66. For the varieties and special characteristics of thia kind of estate, see Tail
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
