Substraction \Sub*strac"tion\, n. [OF. substraction, F. soustraction. See {Subtract}.] 1. Subtraction; deduction. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) See {Subtraction}, 3. [1913 Webster]
SUBSTRACTION, French law. The act of taking something fraudulently; it is generally applied to the taking of the goods of the estate of a deceased person fraudulently. Vide Expilation.