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No: HPFGUIDX 76184

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
<snip> Entailment, if I've understood it correctly, was a 
> popular vehicle for passing on the family goods in victorian 
times.  Essentially, a patriarch of the family establishes that the 
property of the family is inherited by the eldest son. <snip> 
> Marianne

I just finished reading Norman Cantor's "In the Wake of the Plague" 
about the Black Death in the 1300s.  According to him, entailment 
was started in medieval to keep times when property values started 
to skyrocket after a population boom in the late 1200s/early 1300s.  
It was gradually phased out and finally abolished in the late 
1800s.  [And is now a popular plot devise in romance novels ;)]
Ravenclaw Bookworm