primogeniture

How To Use primogeniture In A Sentence

• As for primogeniture, the leading modern authority on the subject, Professor Stanley Katz of the Chicago Law School, has given no weight at all to gerontophobia in causing its abolition. Growing Old: An Exchange
• In the egalitarian spirit of the French Revolution, the newly independent Haiti abolished primogeniture.
• Under the premise of the primogeniture, the Queen is usually when no other male heir choice of helplessness.
• This removed land in intestate estates from the repercussions of primogeniture and stipulated a division along the same lines as chattels: one-third to the widow for her lifetime, ultimately to devolve to the children of the marriage; two-thirds equally divided among the children. Gutenber-e Help Page
• Succession to the throne is based at present on the principle of male primogeniture, embodied in the Salic law, according to which male heirs take precedence and the right of succession belongs to the eldest son.
• We're going to laugh at someone who would think he has some primogeniture on not only my time, but somehow on my affections as well. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
• The great families of England were built on this principle of primogeniture of sons and their properties were not dissipated as the properties of European nobility were.
• But as generations proceeded, and the relationships within the family diverged beyond the degree of second cousin, a natural breaking up seems to have taken place, though in the direction of subinfeudation under the feudal enforcement of the rule of primogeniture, instead of the practice, more in accordance with tribal instincts, of equal division and enfranchisement. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay
• She said that African customary law of inheritance traditionally followed the rule of primogeniture - or oldest ancestor - where the oldest male relative inherited the estate.
• The Japanese form of primogeniture dictated, for the issei generation of women, that the transfer of familial power and property was from husband to first-born son.