verb
- to free (an estate) from entail; to break the legal restrictions on the inheritance of property
Usage: legal/historical; chiefly British
Examples
- The landowner decided to disentail the estate so his children could sell it freely.
- In the 18th century, many aristocrats sought to disentail their properties to raise capital.
- Once the entail was broken, the heir was able to disentail the land and mortgage it.
- The lawyer advised the family to disentail the ancestral home to modernize its ownership structure.