Dictionary - Definition of FALCIDIAN


Part of Speech	Definition
Adjective	1. Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune.[Websters] 2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb falcidianly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form (falcidianly)	1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective falcidian.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.		Top

Date "Falcidian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Falcidian \Fal*cid"i*an\, adjective. [Latin expression Falcidius.]. (references)

Common Expressions: FALCIDIAN

Expressions	Definition
Falcidian law	(Civil Law), a law by which a testator was obliged to leave at least a fourth of his estate to the heir. --Burrill. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
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Expressions	Domain	Definition
Falcidian law	Law	FALCIDIAN LAW, civil law, plebiscitum. 1. A statute or law enacted by the people, made during the reign of Augustus, on the proposition of Falcidius, who was a tribune in the year of Rome 714. 2. Its principal provision gave power to fathers of families to bequeath three-fourths of their property, but deprived them of the power to give away the other fourth, which was to descend to the heir. 3. The same rule, somewhat modified, has been adopted in Louisiana; "donations inter vivos or mortis causal" says the Civil Code, art. 1480, "cannot exceed two-thirds of the property of, the disposer, if he leaves at his decease a legitimate child; one-half, if he leaves two children; and one-third, if he leaves three, or a greater number." 4. By the common law, the power of the father to give his property is unlimited. He may bequeath it to his children equally, to, one in preference to another, or to a stranger, in exclusion of the whole of them. Over his real estate, his wife has a right of dower, or a similar right given to her by act of assembly, in, perhaps, all the states. (references)
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Part of Speech	Definition
Adjective	1. Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune.[Websters] 2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb falcidianly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form (falcidianly)	1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective falcidian.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.		Top

Date "FALCIDIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Falcidian \Fal*cid"i*an\, adjective. [Latin expression Falcidius.]. (references)

Expressions	Definition
Falcidian law	(Civil Law), a law by which a testator was obliged to leave at least a fourth of his estate to the heir. --Burrill. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.		Top

Expressions	Domain	Definition
Falcidian law	Law	FALCIDIAN LAW, civil law, plebiscitum. 1. A statute or law enacted by the people, made during the reign of Augustus, on the proposition of Falcidius, who was a tribune in the year of Rome 714. 2. Its principal provision gave power to fathers of families to bequeath three-fourths of their property, but deprived them of the power to give away the other fourth, which was to descend to the heir. 3. The same rule, somewhat modified, has been adopted in Louisiana; "donations inter vivos or mortis causal" says the Civil Code, art. 1480, "cannot exceed two-thirds of the property of, the disposer, if he leaves at his decease a legitimate child; one-half, if he leaves two children; and one-third, if he leaves three, or a greater number." 4. By the common law, the power of the father to give his property is unlimited. He may bequeath it to his children equally, to, one in preference to another, or to a stranger, in exclusion of the whole of them. Over his real estate, his wife has a right of dower, or a similar right given to her by act of assembly, in, perhaps, all the states. (references)
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