Indeed - if the entail could be reshaped to incorporate Cora's wealth (presumably, though this might just have been a codicil to an earlier entail) then it could be reshaped to exclude the Manchester lawyer.
If the entail is an older one, then the father of the original dosh has indeed kept it in his family... some dynasties operated a 'Hoovering' policy by which property inherited through the female line was diverted away from the heirs of the heiress, so to speak - this happened in the early eighteenth century to much of the Ogle estate inherited by the Cavendish dukes of Newcastle which then passed to an heiress married to the Holles earl of Clare, subsequently created duke of Newcastle; he then tried to leave most of the estate to his sister's son Thomas Pelham, which infuriated the Harley earls of Oxford whose heir had married Holles/Clare/Newcastle's only daughter.
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If the entail is an older one, then the father of the original dosh has indeed kept it in his family... some dynasties operated a 'Hoovering' policy by which property inherited through the female line was diverted away from the heirs of the heiress, so to speak - this happened in the early eighteenth century to much of the Ogle estate inherited by the Cavendish dukes of Newcastle which then passed to an heiress married to the Holles earl of Clare, subsequently created duke of Newcastle; he then tried to leave most of the estate to his sister's son Thomas Pelham, which infuriated the Harley earls of Oxford whose heir had married Holles/Clare/Newcastle's only daughter.