\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.