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Aubaine

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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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