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Definition of Eigne
1. a. Eldest; firstborn.
Definition of Eigne
1. first born [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eigne
Literary usage of Eigne
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"There is indeed one instance in which our law has shown them some little regard;
and that is usually termed the case of bastard eigne (an elder son, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"P and Q denoting any two uneven numbers relatively prime, the eigne of which are
subject to the same restrictions as the signs of p and q in the ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1826)
"... registration. and afterwards the mortgagee eigne, having the legal estate,
years after his or her death, dying upon the sea or in parts beyond the seas. ..."
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