il

1. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject)
2. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects)
3. Impersonal subject; it

de

• Prep

  1. of (expresses belonging)
  2. of (used to express property or association)
  3. from (used to indicate origin)
  4. of (indicates an amount)
  5. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word
  6. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range)
  7. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive
  8. by (indicates the amount of change)

• Article
• Noun

aux

Contraction of à + les ('to the' or 'of the')

lois

plural of loi (“law”)

homme

1. man (adult male human)
2. man, Man (species)
3. man (virile male)
4. man (employee)

qui

• Pron

  1. who, whom
  2. who, whom (after a preposition), which, that

• Conj

leur

• Pron

  (to) them

• Det

appartenait

third-person singular imperfect indicative of appartenir