Dérogeance

The dérogeance consists in making acts which are unworthy of a noble person, its effect was to make lose the Privilèges Noblesse, even the nobility if this one were only recent or, according to some, if several generations of dérogeance followed one another.

The exercise of certain professions derogated, such as for example that of the trades of merchant (except trade on sea and wholesale), craftsman, domestic, offices subordinates (usher, sergeant, prosecutors, notaries…).

In the same way, except for the grounds of the princes of blood, the earth electrode in farm (tax tenant farming) derogated.

A letter of rehabilitation made it possible to recover the full nobility.

With the difference of the forfeiture - which consisted in bringing back a noble family to the state commoner, which could arrive, for example, at the time of the many revocations of conceded nobilities - the dérogeance did not remove the nobility; it nothing but did prohibit the privileges of them. Concretely, the noble one was then put at the size.

Sources

Dictionary of right and practice - M *** - 1769
New treaty of the elections - Pierre Vieuille - 1739
the treaty of the Nobility - G.A. of Castling - 1678

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