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verb
To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
Topics: law
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verb
Of a father: to put (a son or daughter) in possession of land which the son or daughter accepts as their whole portion of the father's property.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Topics: law
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History
From Late Latin forisfamiliatus, past participle of forisfamiliare (“to forisfamiliate”).
