aubaine
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Au·baine
n.
[F., fr. aubain an alien, fr. L. alibi elsewhere.]
Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré.
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.
