Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Minorat \Mi`no*rat"\, n. [G. Cf. {Minor}, a.] (Law)
   A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England,
   formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving
   in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed
   estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the
   youngest male heir.