Forisfamiliation

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Forisfamiliation \Fo`ris*fa*mil`i*a"tion\, n. (Law)
     The act of forisfamiliating.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  FORISFAMILIATION, law of Scotl. By this is understood the act by which a 
  father gives to a child his share of his legitime, and the latter renounces 
  all further claim. From this time, the child who has so received his share, 
  is no longer accounted 4 child in the division of the estate. Ersk. Inst. 
  655, n. 23; Burt. Man. P. R. part 1, c. 2, s. 3, page 35.