droit de retour
French law
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The term "droit de retour" is a French legal concept related to inheritance. It is a principle where assets that were given as a gift to an intestate (someone who dies without a will) return to the donor if the recipient dies without descendants. This is a preservation of an older idea of keeping property within a specific bloodline, though this concept has largely disappeared in modern law, with France being an exception for this specific rule. The term "retour" itself, in Scots law, means to make a retour of something.12
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