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Webster 1913 Edition
Aubaine
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Auˊbaine′
,Noun.
[F., fr.
aubain
an alien, fr. L. alibi
elsewhere.] Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.
Littré.
Droit d’aubaine
, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819.
Bouvier.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aubaine
AUBA'INE
,Noun.
The droit d'aubaine, in France, is the right of the king to the goods of an alien dying within his jurisdiction, the king standing in the place of the heirs.