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Ordynat

Fee tail or entail is a legal concept and set of associated rules restricting the manner in which real property (especially land) passes from one generation to the next; these rules tend to keep deceased estates together as a whole, and in the hands of a single owner (heir), rather than allowing them to be split up amongst multiple children (as would tend to happen in similar situations in Continental European law).

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