1. past tense and past participle of disentail; to free (an estate) from entail; to remove the legal restrictions that prevent an entailed property from being freely sold or transferred.
Usage: legal/historical; chiefly British

Examples

• The landowner disentailed the estate so that his heirs could sell it freely.
• Once the property was disentailed, it could be divided among multiple beneficiaries.
• He disentailed the family lands to modernize the inheritance system.
• The court ruled that the estate had been properly disentailed in 1850.
• After the law changed, many aristocrats disentailed their ancestral properties.