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Entailment — En*tail ment, n. 1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent. [1913 Webster] 2. The condition of being entailed. [1913 Webster] 3. A thing entailed. [1913 Webster] Brutality as an hereditary entailment… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
entailment — n. A restriction of the way a property will be inherited that is different from what the ordinary rules of inheritance would dictate. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 … Law dictionary
Entailment — For other uses, see Entail (disambiguation). In logic, entailment is a relation between a set of sentences (e.g.,[1] meaningfully declarative sentences or truthbearers) and a sentence. Let Γ be a set of one or more sentences; let S1 be the… … Wikipedia
entailment — An interference with and curtailment of the ordinary rules pertaining to devolution by inheritance; a limitation and direction by which property is to descend different from the course which it would take if the creator of the entailment, grantor … Black's law dictionary
entailment — An interference with and curtailment of the ordinary rules pertaining to devolution by inheritance; a limitation and direction by which property is to descend different from the course which it would take if the creator of the entailment, grantor … Black's law dictionary
entailment — entail ► VERB 1) involve (something) as an inevitable part or consequence. 2) Law settle the inheritance of (property) over a number of generations so that it remains within a family. ► NOUN Law ▪ an instance of entailing property. DERIVATIVES… … English terms dictionary
Entailment (pragmatics) — In pragmatics (linguistics), entailment is the relationship between two sentences where the truth of one (A) requires the truth of the other (B).For example, the sentence (A) The president was assassinated. entails (B) The president is dead .… … Wikipedia
entailment — noun see entail I … New Collegiate Dictionary
entailment — noun The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed … Wiktionary
entailment — The relationship between a set of premises and a conclusion when the conclusion follows from the premises, or may validly be inferred from the premises. Many philosophers identify this with it being logically impossible that the premises should… … Philosophy dictionary
