Crossword-Solution: MAJORAT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Majorat | a. | The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe. |
| Majorat | a. | Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it. |
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| estate, the right to which is that of the first born child of a family | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with MAJORAT (5)
More impressive even than a circumstantial account like this are briefly-stated facts such as the following: that the Palatine Stanislas Jablonowski kept a retinue of 2,300 soldiers and 4,000 courtiers, valets, armed attendants, huntsmen, falconers, fishers, musicians, and actors; and that Janusz, Prince of Ostrog, left at his death a majorat of eighty towns and boroughs, and 2,760 villages, without counting the towns and villages of his starosties.
These noble families in the Central Empires, by the system of _Majorat_ which I have described, hold large landed estates, and naturally exert a great influence upon their labourers.
They are proud to transmit their title untarnished to their descendants, are ready to make serious sacrifices in its behalf, to exercise the rigid self-denials of family control for its sake, and to engrave the motto of "noblesse oblige" on their hearts in order to sustain it; but they bitterly complain that without the majorat, and the transmission of outward, visible supports in land and houses to strengthen it, the empty sound carries little weight.
The inheritance of the Peerage cannot henceforward be conferred until a Majorat of the net revenue of twenty thousand francs, at least, shall be attached to the Peerage.
Immediately on the endowment of a Majorat, and on the production of letters-patent, the titulary will be entered in the great-book of the public debt, for an unalienable revenue, according to the amount of his majorat.