The important part consisted in that he renounced his right to own land.

重要的是他放弃了拥有土地的权利。

Do not tear him all at once from his idle life, it would kill him. I beg him on my knees to renounce all rights that, as his mother's heir, he may have on my estate.

不要一下子把他从无所事事的生活中拉出来，那会要了他的命。我跪下来求他放弃作为他母亲的继承人对我的财产享有的所有权利。