<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence: a loss entailing no regret.</li><li>to impose as a burden: Success entails hard work.</li><li>Law: to limit the passage of (real estate) to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be transferred or bequeathed to anyone else.</li><li>Law: to cause (anything) to descend to a fixed series of possessors.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of entailing.</li><li>Law: the state of being entailed.</li><li>any predetermined order of succession, as to an office.</li><li>Law: something that is entailed, as an estate.</li><li>Law: the rule of descent settled for an estate.</li></ul>