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(a.) 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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Minorat'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/minorat.html. 1828.
 
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