exheredation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EXHEREDA'TION, noun [Latin exhoeredatio, exhoeredo; ex and hoeres, an heir.] In the civil law, a disinheriting; a father's excluding a child from inheriting any part of his estate.
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