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Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
Origin: Civil Law
502. But particularly, in the civil law, a will which deprives the heirs of that portion of the estate to which the law entitles them, and of which they cannot legally be disinherited. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 714; Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 3556, subd. 16.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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