Restricted by legal entailment; inheriting property under conditions that limit how it can be used, sold, or passed on, usually to preserve family estates.
From 'entail' (Old French 'entailler'), originally meaning to cut or shape, adapted into legal terminology to mean 'to limit or restrict.' The '-ed' forms the past participle/adjective indicating something has been subjected to entailment.
Jane Austen's novels are full of anxious discussions about 'entailed estates'—the whole plot problem in 'Pride and Prejudice' exists because Mr. Bennet's property is entailed away from his daughters, which meant they had to marry to survive, making marriage literally a matter of economic life and death.
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