entail
Involve as consequence
To entail is to make necessary or involve as a consequence: The project entails significant risk.
If something entails another thing, you can't have the first without the second coming along.
In law, entail refers to restricting inheritance of property to a specific line of heirs, preventing future owners from selling or willing it elsewhere—a mechanism central to many Victorian novels about landed estates.
What follows a cause
- outcomeFinal result of events
- effectResult of a cause
- implicationIndirect suggestion or consequence
- ramificationSecondary consequence of action
repercussion · involve · necessitate · require · lead to · bring about · give rise to · carry
To make necessary
- necessitateMake unavoidable or essential
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- compelForce to act
- obligeRequire or assist
impose · demand · involve · commitment · duty · responsibility · burden · condition
Eldest inherits all
- estateProperty and grounds
- heirOne who receives legacy
- successionFollowing in order
- hereditaryPassed through generations
lineage · inalienable · unbreakable · restrict · limit · descend · pass down · Downton Abbey
Rules governing inheritance
- property lawRules about ownership rights
- conveyanceTransfer of property rights
- deedWritten property conveyance
- titleFormal honorific or name
restriction · encumbrance · settlement · trust · devise · tenure · freehold · remainder
result
What follows a cause
- outcomeFinal result of events
- effectResult of a cause
- implicationIndirect suggestion or consequence
ramification · repercussion · involve · necessitate · require · lead to · bring about · give rise to · carry · mean
require
To make necessary
- necessitateMake unavoidable or essential
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- compelForce to act
oblige · impose · demand · involve · commitment · duty · responsibility · burden · condition · stipulation
primogeniture
Eldest inherits all
- estateProperty and grounds
- heirOne who receives legacy
- successionFollowing in order
hereditary · lineage · inalienable · unbreakable · restrict · limit · descend · pass down · Downton Abbey
estate law
Rules governing inheritance
- property lawRules about ownership rights
- conveyanceTransfer of property rights
- deedWritten property conveyance
title · restriction · encumbrance · settlement · trust · devise · tenure · freehold · remainder · reversion
- legal archaismsattainder, escheat, outlawry, livery of seisin, trial by ordeal
- aristocracylord, titles, lady, heraldry, noble titles
- hereditary privilegebirthright, primogeniture, bloodline, pedigree, hereditary title
- hereditary rulebirthright, bloodline, hereditary rule, kingship, primogeniture
- historical lawattainder, Justinian Code, Roman law, curtesy, Napoleonic Code
- inheritanceinheritance, inheritances, heir, heirs, heiress