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Meaning of SECUNDO-GENITURE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Se*cun`do-gen"i*ture\, n. [L. secundus second
+ genitura a begetting, generation.]
A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property
or possession so inherited.
      The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a
      secundo-geniture of Spain.               --Bancroft.
 
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