forisfamiliation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FORISFAMILIA'TION, noun When a child has received a portion of his father's estate, and renounces all title to a further shar, his act is called forisfamiliation and he is said to be forisfamiliated.
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