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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1687-1688
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Gestion, n. [L. gestio (pro herede).] An action constituting a passisive title to an inheritance. —a 1688 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. III. 39.
It is doubted by some, if the renouncing a reversion … for a sum of money be a gestion or not