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Eigne   Listen
adjective
Eigne  adj.  
1.
(Law) Eldest; firstborn.
2.
Entailed; belonging to the eldest son. (Obs.)
Bastard eigne, a bastard eldest son whose parents afterwards intermarry.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Eigne" Quotes from Famous Books



... forerunner of him who, a hundred and fifty years later, "shook his head at Murray as a wit," to know that the most profound thinker and the most accomplished orator of the age was very imperfectly acquainted with the law touching bastard eigne and mulier puisne, and confounded the right of free fishery ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay



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