Banishment and disinheritance may be levied against a Serer who disobeys the law. He considered the Constables his social inferiors and threatened Maria with disinheritance. Disownment may entail disinheritance, familial exile, or shunning, and often all three. Upon his disinheritance, he opened a lucrative trade in "inheritance powders" and aphrodisiacs. His heir was a distant cousin, Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, until his disinheritance in 1909. Thus began the process which did eventually result in Ruthin's disinheritance. The traditional story of the disinheritance might be a fable. The room as a whole is a recreation of Knole, "Vita's record of her disinheritance". There was no "disinheritance clause" in the will, which caused controversy. After Charles VI died, his son challenged his disinheritance and claimed the throne.