Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Scotch form of tail.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Scots Law) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.

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  • noun law, Scotland An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.

Etymologies

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French tailler to cut. See tail a limitation.

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Examples

  • “Certainly, and some of them very good ones,” said the lawyer; “as in the common case of an heir of entail, where deed of provision and tailzie is maist ordinarily implemented by taking up name and arms.”

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Saddletree, impatiently; “didna ye get baith liberty and conscience made fast, and settled by tailzie on you and your heirs for ever?”

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • ‘Why, sir, for myself, ’ replied the counsellor, ‘I am Paulus Pleydell, an advocate at the Scottish bar; and for you, it is not easy to say distinctly who you are at present; but I trust in a short time to hail you by the title of Harry Bertram, Esq., representative of one of the oldest families in Scotland, and heir of tailzie and provision to the estate of Ellangowan.

    Chapter L 1917

  • ` ` Institutes and substitutes are synonymous words, Mr. Butler, and used indifferently as such in deeds of tailzie, as you may see in Balfour's Practiques, or Dallas of St. Martin's

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • ` ` But what wad ye hae had, Mr. Deans? '' said Saddletree, impatiently; ` ` didna ye get baith liberty and conscience made fast, and settled by tailzie on you and your heirs for ever? ''

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • ` ` Ay, to be sure, '' said Saddletree; ` ` the family may be considered as limited to them twa now, just as if Effie had never been in the tailzie, puir thing.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • Knarths, the Arths, the Godfreys, the Dennises, and the Rolands, and, last and dearest title, heir of tailzie and provision of the lands and barony of Ellangowan, under the settlement of Lewis

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Knarths, the Arths, the Godfreys, the Dennises, and the Rolands, and, last and dearest title, heir of tailzie and provision of the lands and barony of Ellangowan, under the settlement of Lewis

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • "Certainly, and some of them very good ones," said the lawyer; "as in the common case of an heir of entail, where deed of provision and tailzie is maist ordinarily implemented by taking up name and arms."

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • Arths, the Godfreys, the Dennises, and the Rolands, and, last and dearest title, heir of tailzie and provision of the lands and barony of

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

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