Minorat

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

  Minorat \Mi`no*rat"\, n. [G. Cf. {Minor}, a.] (Law)
     A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England,
     formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving
     in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed
     estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the
     youngest male heir.


     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]