Obs.Fr. French usage of giving lands to non-Heirs Royal of the Crown. These lands could not be sold, mortgaged, or used as a dowry, and passed back to the King in the extinction of the line. Found on http://www.lectlaw.com/def/a058.htm
Apanage was an allowance which the younger princes of a reigning house in some European countries received from the revenues of the country, generally together with a grant of public domains, that they may be enabled to live in a manner becoming their rank. Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/JA.HTM