Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

minorat

minorat


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Minorat  \Mi`no*rat"\,  n.  [G.  Cf  {Minor},  a.]  (Law) 
  A  custom  or  right  analogous  to  borough-English  in  England, 
  formerly  existing  in  various  parts  of  Europe,  and  surviving 
  in  parts  of  Germany  and  Austria,  by  which  certain  entailed 
  estates,  as  a  homestead  and  adjacent  land,  descend  to  the 
  youngest  male  heir.