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Meaning of "primogeniture"
primogeniture (noun) - the state of being the firstborn child, especially the system of inheritance or succession where the firstborn child receives the largest share
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- The state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents.
- The principle that the eldest child, traditionally the eldest male, has an exclusive right of inheritance.
- An instance of such a right of inheritance, established by custom or law.
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primogeniture
The right of primogeniture and nothing more.
Liberals advocate the adoption of absolute primogeniture.
The law of primogeniture was fundamental in ancient societies.
This was a way to defeat primogeniture inheritance.
Primogeniture was happily recognized with the third race.
This succession is according to the customs of primogeniture.
Practice favoured primogeniture but did not always enforce it.
This led to a short period of effective primogeniture.
Patrilineal primogeniture predominated in ancient times.
And plans to reinstate the right of primogeniture.
Effectively primogeniture with local variations.
Leaseholds are impartible and inherited by male primogeniture.
No primogeniture encoded in our common law.
Its succession was to follow male primogeniture.
Primogeniture has not been the only form of inheritance in monarchies.
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This inheritance pattern is known as primogeniture.
The law of primogeniture was condemned.
The title was passed by male primogeniture.
It is a natural effect of primogeniture to make the landlords a needy class.
Chief forms are agnatic seniority and agnatic primogeniture.
Primogeniture is the future.
Austrian governance was now to be based on primogeniture and indivisibility.
Primogeniture in your face.
Oman is an absolute monarchy by male primogeniture.
The title descends by masculine primogeniture and there is no female equivalent.
Appanages were used to sweeten the pill of the primogeniture.
As a second son under the system of primogeniture he had little expectation of a rich inheritance.
He supported a hereditary aristocracy and primogeniture.
This succession is based on primogeniture with male priority in the same degree of relationship.
Entails are the natural consequences of the law of primogeniture.
The other economical argument in favour of primogeniture has special reference to landed property.
The succession to the rule was not legally restricted by primogeniture.
Primogeniture maintained family estates intact over generations by permitting only one heir per generation.
The royal succession is not by primogeniture.
The medieval social convention of primogeniture meant that the eldest son inherited title and estate.
The succession to the throne is by primogeniture.
Customs of male primogeniture also prevailed among the Sotho.
This principle is called male primogeniture.
Cities where primogeniture was practiced were less likely to adopt Protestantism.
Succession is governed by absolute primogeniture.
The right of primogeniture appertains to Messiah over all created things.
Succession is based upon primogeniture.
The title is inherited in male primogeniture line by the descendants of William Bentinck.
We must take great care to follow the rule of primogeniture.
He also introduced the primogeniture in Leuchtenberg.
Cyrus is expecting a son and plans to reinstate the right of primogeniture.
The succession order is determined by primogeniture in most European monarchies.
The electoral privilege also contained the obligation of male primogeniture.
In the Genesis narrative one sees how primogeniture was disregarded in the clan of Abraham.
Reuben forfeited by his crime the rights and honors of primogeniture.
