This is not a Question it is an answer since the Plato web answers don't appear to be here.


In Jane Austen's time, the law dictated that a man’s property was inherited by his closest male heir instead of by the women in his family. What was this law known as?

• dowry

• entailment

• curtailment

• annulment

• alimony


According to the tutorials on this particular part the answer is "entailment"