forisfamillate love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To put out of the family; in law, to emancipate or free from parental authority; used of putting a son in possession of property in his father's lifetime, as his share of the inheritance, either at his own request or with his consent, and thus discharging him from the family.
  • In law, to renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.

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