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"