Inofficious
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
tn civil law. Those dispositions, which fathers, mothers, and other ascendants make of their property to the prejudice of their descendants, beyond the proportion reserved to them by law, are called inofficious. Civ. Code of Lo. art.
2522, No. 21.
Such a disposition of property is void.'
Vide Dig. 5, 2,5; Inst. 2, 18, 1; Code, 3, 29; Nov. 115; Ayl. Pand. 405.