Entail

In English common law, fee tail or entail is a form of trust established by deed or settlement which restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents the property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the tenant-in-possession, and instead causes it to pass automatically by operation of law to an heir pre-determined by the settlement deed. The term fee tail is from Medieval Latin feodum talliatum, which means "cut(-short) fee", and is in contrast to "fee simple" where no such restriction exists and where the possessor has an absolute title (although subject to the allodial title of the monarch) in the property which he can bequeath or otherwise dispose of as he wishes. Equivalent legal concepts exist or formerly existed in many other European countries and elsewhere.

Wikipedia

Curtail (verb)
To cut short the tail of an animal
"Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair."
Curtail (verb)
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
"When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech."
Curtail (verb)
To limit or restrict, keep in check.
Curtail (noun)
A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

Entail (verb)
To imply or require.
"This activity will entail careful attention to detail."
Entail (verb)
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
Entail (verb)
To appoint hereditary possessor.
Entail (verb)
To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
Entail (noun)
That which is entailed. Hence:
Entail (noun)
An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
Entail (noun)
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Wiktionary

Entail (verb)
involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence
"a situation which entails considerable risks"
Entail (verb)
have as a logically necessary consequence.
Entail (verb)
limit the inheritance of (property) over a number of generations so that ownership remains within a particular family or group
"her father's estate was entailed on a cousin"
Entail (verb)
cause to experience or possess (something) permanently or inescapably
"I cannot get rid of the disgrace which you have entailed upon us"
Entail (noun)
a limitation of the inheritance of property to certain heirs over a number of generations
"landed property was governed by primogeniture and entail"
"the damage being done in England by entails"
Entail (noun)
a property bequeathed under an entail
"the spinning mills were not part of the entail"

Oxford Dictionary

Curtail
To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
Curtail (noun)
The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.

Entail (noun)
That which is entailed.
Entail (noun)
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
Entail
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; - said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
Entail
To appoint hereditary possessor.
Entail
To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

Webster Dictionary

Curtail (verb)
place restrictions on;
"curtail drinking in school"
Curtail (verb)
terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent;
"My speech was cut short"
"Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"

Entail (noun)
land received by fee tail
Entail (noun)
the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple
Entail (verb)
have as a logical consequence;
"The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"
Entail (verb)
impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result;
"What does this move entail?"
Entail (verb)
limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs