| 单词 | in tail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin tail k. = queue n. 7a; in phrase in tail rendering the French en queue. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > a line or row > queue queue1837 tail1837 line1930 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. iv. 323 Long strings of purchasers, arranged in tail, so that the first come be the first served. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. iv. 323 In time, we shall see..the art..of standing in tail become one of the characteristics of the Parisian People, distinguishing them from all other Peoples. in tail a. The limitation or destination of a freehold estate or fee to a person and the heirs of his body, or some particular class of such heirs, on the failure of whom it is to revert to the donor or his heir or assign. [Compare tail adj., tail v.2 5; = tailye n. 3] Hence phrase in tail, as estate in tail, tenant in tail, heir in tail, i.e. within or under the limitation in question. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > entailing or entail tail1373 entailc1380 tailye1391 entailinga1538 entailmenta1641 1321–2 Rolls of Parl. I. 394/2 C'est son droit par vertu de la taille avantdit [i.e. an entail to heirs of the body of the spouses].] 1373–5 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Q. Eliz. (1830) I. Pref. 59 An olde dede..comprisynge the wordes of a tayll made in Kynge Edwardes tyme the second. 1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 125 And aftir him and his issue, to Iohn his brother, and his issue in the taile. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xi. 136 To some parte þeroff the eyres off thaim þat some tyme owed it be restored; some bi reason off tayles, some bi reason off oþer titles. 1479 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 52 And after the decess of the seid Alice, I will that the seid maner shall remayne to the issues of my body lawfully begoten accordyng to the tayle therof made. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng x. f. 11 If the gyfte were in the tayle and no remaynder in fe euer, nowe the reuercyon resteth styll in ye donor. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Rrr4v Taile..is vsed for the fee, which is opposite to fee simple: by reason that it is so..minced, or pared, that it is not in his free power to be disposed..but is..tyed to the issue of the Donee... This limitation, or taile, is either generall, or speciall. 1718 M. Prior Chameleon 7 As if the Rain-bow were in Tail Settled on him [a Chameleon] and his Heirs Male. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. vii. 115 The incidents to a tenancy in tail. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 463 All estates given in tail..shall become fee simple estates to the issue of the first donee in tail [cf. quot. 1866]. 1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xv. 280 All donees in tail, by the act of this first republican legislature of Virginia, were vested with the absolute dominion of the property entailed. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. xiii. 173 The defendant a donee in tail, i.e. a person in whose behalf an estate tail had been created. 1893 M. Cholmondeley Diana Tempest iii You're in the tail, I suppose? < as lemmas |
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