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Middle French
Etymology
Old French eredité < Latin hērēditas.
Noun
heredité f (plural heredités)
- the right to inherit
1580, Jean de Tournes, Trias judiciel du second notaire de Jean Papon, conseiller du roy, et lieutenant general au bailliage de Forestz. Seconde edition reveue & augmentee par l'autheur, page 112:[…] resoult qu'une heredité ne se peut recongnoistre ny accepter au nom d'un autre sans expres & special mandement- resolved that the right to inherit cannot be recognised nor accepted in another's name except without a special, explicit command
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