D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Aubaine

· Au·baine · IPA
01 n. Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.
  1. 1.
    Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.
Phrases & compounds
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.