disherison

Justinian enumerated the "just" causes of disherison in Novel cxv; they are substantially the same in the modern civil codes.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Not only could they contain no institution of an heir, but they could not provide for disherison or substitution.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Further, disherison required exclusion from all heirs and from every degree.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Since disherison was required to be express, one conditionally instituted was only pretermitted.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

In the early freedom of the law, Romans might disinherit without cause; later, this liberty was restricted to disherison for just cause, and a legitima, or statutory provision, was prescribed.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

You will find, sir, that the author of the law has not conferred the right of disherison upon any father against any son upon any pretext.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

Yet these are just the offences for which the law contemplates disherison.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

Unaware, as yet, of the disherison which his mother had visited upon him in his absence, he continued to manage the plantation and conduct all the business pertaining to it in his own name, as he had done ever since the close of the war.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880

Unaware, as yet, of the disherison which his mother had visited upon him in his absence, he continued to manage the plantation and conduct all the business pertaining to it in his own name, as he had done ever since the close of the war.

Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871

That thought, which completes the voluntary disherison of the mother, adds to the misery of her last moments and fills them with such a flood of remorse and regret that, notwithstanding her determination to be brave, she weeps and weeps.

The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868