entail

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To imply, require, or invoke.
2. 2
   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.
3. 3
   To appoint hereditary possessor.
4. 4
   To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

Noun

1. 1
   That which is entailed.
2. 2
   That which is entailed: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
3. 3
   That which is entailed: The rule by which the descent is fixed.
4. 4
   Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.