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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Majorat, n.

noun

Majorat (mĭ'zho-rä′), n. [Fr. majorat, L. Lat. majoratus, from Lat. major. See supra.]

  1. The right of succession to property according to age;—so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
  2. (Fr. Law.) Property, landed or funded, so attached to an hereditary title of honor as to descend with it. Brande.