限げん嗣し相そう続ぞく

noun

entail; fee tail

A legal term from Western common law referring to a form of inheritance that restricts the estate to a specific line of heirs. Used in academic or historical contexts when discussing English legal history.

• 限げん嗣し相そう続ぞくは、中ちゅう世せいイングランドの土と地ち法ほうで重じゅう要ような役やく割わりを果はたした。

  The fee tail played an important role in medieval English land law.