Aubaine \Au`baine"\, n. [F., fr. aubain an alien, fr. L. alibi elsewhere.]

Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. --Littr['e].

Droit d'aubaine, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. --Bouvier.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)