FORISFAMILIATE

By SovConn | June 18, 2016

forisfamiliate (for-is-f<<schwa>>-mil-ee-ayt), vb. [fr. Latin foris “outside” + familia

“family”] Hist. To emancipate (a son) from paternal authority by a gift of land. • This act usu.

rendered the son ineligible to inherit more property. — Also termed (archaically) forisfamiliare. [Blacks Law 8th]

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