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AUBAINE, French law. When a foreigner died in France, the crown by virtue of a right called droit d'aubaine, formerly claimed all the personal propertysuch foreigner had in France at the time of his death. This barbarous lawwas swept away by the French revolution of 1789. Vide Albinatus Jus. 1Malleville's Analyse de la Discussion du Code Civil, pp. 26, 28 1 Toullier,236, n. 265.

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