单词 | majorat |
释义 | majoratn. Law. In France, Spain, Italy, and some other countries: an entailment of an estate by primogeniture; an estate attached to the right of primogeniture. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land owned or occupied by specific class of person cotlanda1150 knighttec1380 lairdship1397 thanage14.. marchionatc1449 pittancery1519 marquesya1525 marquisdom1530 marquisatea1544 peership1594 peerdom1611 vavasory1611 thane-landa1641 marquisshipa1680 starosty1681 freedom1752 peerage1759 pollam1765 senatory1804 squireship1824 majorat1827 dukery1837 patroonship1848 squatment1860 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > hereditary > right of primogeniture birtha1325 firme birtha1325 first birtha1387 first-birth right1535 right of primogeniture1602 primogeniture1614 primogenitivea1616 primogenitureship1622 ploughman's fee1660 majorat1827 1827 W. Scott in Foreign Q. Rev. 1 84 The principal part of the estate of the baron consisted in the Castle of R——sitten, a majorat, or entailed property, which gives name to the story. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 83 That restoration of hereditary aristocracy which was effected in France, took place in Italy likewise, by a decree of 1808, bestowing on the sovereign the power of conferring titles, and allowing the nobles so created to institute majorats, or devises of lands in favour of their eldest sons, or others whom they might select to transmit their honours. 1853 W. Whewell tr. H. Grotius De Jure Belli I. 379 The same rule holds with regard to the majorats in that kingdom [sc. Castile]. 1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany I. 54 In Bavaria, the noble families are allowed by law to found fresh majorats, i.e. fresh families with entailed estates. 1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) iii. 59 The eldest was Dmitri, who inherited the Nabokov majorat in the then Tsardom of Poland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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