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primogeniture::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | heritage, inheritance |
Examples of primogeniture
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This form of primogeniture was not practiced by any modern monarchy before 1980.
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The succession order is determined by primogeniture in most European monarchies.
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Historically, the term implied male primogeniture, to the exclusion of females.
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Male primogeniture succession was laid down in law in the Royal Decree of 1665.
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Male primogeniture rules, at least as far as Canada's government is concerned.
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The succession order is generally determined roughly by agnatic primogeniture.
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Under common law the crown is currently passed on by male-preference primogeniture.
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The term, under English law, applies the rules of male primogeniture to succession.
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Primogeniture favored the first sons'inheriting lands and titles in England.
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- Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son
- A system of inheritance in which a persons property passes exclusively to the eldest (or otherwise most senior) son.
- The law of the first-born. Under this law, the eldest son inherits everything on the death of his father.
- The system, employed in England and elsewhere, under which the eldest son, or in default of same, the senior living male relative, succeeds to a title (a qualified system exists in European monarchies whereby the eldest daughter can succeed where there is no son, and indeed a number of Scottish ...
- English statute of 1290 that abolished subinfudation
- Meaning firstborn, the law of primogeniture prevented the dispersal of family property by allowing only the eldest son to inherit the entire patrimony.
- Inheritance of an estate to the eldest son, or eldest child, only.
- The biblical position that the firstborn son retains a more significant place in the family than would his siblings in regard to inheritance and authority.
- Primogeniture is when the first-born son inherits the intestate estate.This practice was based on English common law.
