An archaic legal term meaning to disinherit or exclude someone from family rights and property, primarily used in medieval English law.
From Latin 'foris' (outside) and 'familiatus' (related to family), combining to mean literally 'to put outside the family.' This was a formal legal procedure in medieval England.
Medieval families had legal power to literally kick someone out of the family and strip them of all inheritance rights with a formal process called 'forisfamiliation'—it was the medieval version of cutting someone off, but official and legal.
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