Majorat: The OED draft entry from 2000 defines it as "In France, Spain, Italy, and some other countries: an entailment of an estate by primogeniture; an estate attached to the right of primogeniture" and gives the following etymology: ... + -at -ATE1, after (with change of suffix) Spanish mayorazgo entailment of possessions upon the heir by primogeniture (c1370). The English word sometimes renders other loans from the Spanish word, e.g. Italian maggiorasco (1602; ...
Whatever happened to their ?noble estate? or mayorazgo in modern day Philippines. Does it still exist? Who is the current ?lord? of the tuason mayorazgo? I believe the first tuason was a Chinese merchant , Son Tua. ...
