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Majorat   Listen
noun
Majorat  n.  
1.
The right of succession to property according to age; so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
2.
(French Law) Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it.





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"Majorat" Quotes from Famous Books



... in its behalf, to exercise the rigid self-denials of family control for its sake, and to engrave the motto of "noblesse oblige" on their hearts in order to sustain it; but they bitterly complain that without the majorat, and the transmission of outward, visible supports in land and houses to strengthen it, the empty sound carries little weight. The compulsory subdivision of estates at the death of the owner enables every scion to live, if not to thrive, on the home stock. The failure of France ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane


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