Word: disinheritance
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...dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit Louis. Kaiser Wilhelm promptly proposed the German Duke of Urach as a suitable heir. In the nick of time the prodigal prince came home, was reconciled with his father. Prince Albert recognized his granddaughter, Princess Charlotte...
...months before the 1953 nominating convention. This would disqualify all the eager amateurs in the Magsaysay-for-President movement. It would also disqualify Democrats, who had joined in supporting Magsaysay for President after first trying to run Carlos P. Romulo. Magsaysay scornfully refused to bargain with Recto, or to disinherit his most enthusiastic supporters...
...young girl, she was abused with "drunken violence" by her stepfather until she was 16 years old. She ran away and took refuge in the house of a "severe and miserly" uncle, who, says Biographer Magarshack, threatened not only to throw her out of his house but also to disinherit her. But when he died, she inherited his vast estates, married Turgenev's father-and set out to get her own back for the miseries she had suffered...
...ruling Singhs. As a sop to the sentiments of the Hindu minority, however, he offered to let young Karan become the state's constitutional governor for a five-year term. But Karan's father, the old maharaja, who is living in luxury in Bombay, threatened to disinherit his son and cut off his $63,000 yearly allowance if he took the job. The governor's job would pay only...
...Peaches") Browning, 40, tabloid-touted child-bride of the '205, got special mention in the will of her third husband, the late Joseph Civelli, San Francisco department-store executive, who left an estate of some $50,000. Wrote Civelli in his will: "It is my specific intention . . . to disinherit her completely...