1. present participle of disentail; to free (an estate or property) from entail; to remove the legal restrictions that limit inheritance to a specific line of heirs
Usage: legal/historical; chiefly British

1. the act or process of removing entail from an estate or property
Usage: legal/historical; chiefly British

Examples

• The landowner pursued disentailing his estate to allow greater flexibility in inheritance.
• Disentailing the property required legal proceedings and the consent of all interested parties.
• By disentailing the family lands, he freed future generations from restrictive inheritance laws.
• The process of disentailing took several years to complete through the courts.
• She was disentailing her grandmother's estate to distribute it more fairly among her children.