noun
- Plural of entailer; persons who entail property or create an entail (a legal arrangement that restricts the inheritance of an estate to a specific line of heirs).
Usage: legal/historical; chiefly British
Examples
- The entailers of the estate sought to preserve the family's wealth across generations.
- Medieval entailers used legal instruments to ensure their lands remained within the family line.
- The entailers' intentions were to prevent the sale or division of ancestral property.
- Historians studied how entailers shaped property law in England during the 18th century.