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Aubaine
Au`baine´
n. | 1. | Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.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. |
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Aubaine
AUBAINE, French law. When a foreigner died in France, the crown by virtue ofa right called droit d'aubaine, formerly claimed all the personal propertysuch foreigner had in France at the time of his death. This barbarous lawwas swept away by the French revolution of 1789. Vide Albinatus Jus. 1Malleville's Analyse de la Discussion du Code Civil, pp. 26, 28 1 Toullier,236, n. 265. |