Falcidian Portion
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In the civil law. That portion of a testator's estate which by the Falcidian law (q. v.) was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth. Hallifax Anal. b.
2, ch. 7, num. 18, 19.
Civil Code of Louis. art.
1608. 1 White's Recop. 106.