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Historical inheritance systems. Historical inheritance systems are different systems of inheritance among various people. Detailed anthropological and sociological studies have been made about customs of patrilineal inheritance, where only male children can inherit. Some cultures also employ matrilineal succession, where property can only pass ...
t. e. Primogeniture (/ ˌpraɪməˈdʒɛnɪtʃər, - oʊ -/) is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative. In most contexts, it means the inheritance of the ...
In law, an "heir" (FEM: heiress) is a person who is entitled to receive a share of property from a decedent (a person who died), subject to the rules of inheritance in the jurisdiction where the decedent was a citizen, or where the decedent died or owned property at the time of death. The inheritance may be either under the terms of a will or ...
Feudalism. v. t. e. Gavelkind (/ ˈɡævəlkaɪnd /) was a system of land tenure chiefly associated with the Celtic law in Ireland and Wales and with the legal traditions of the English county of Kent. The word may have originated from the Old Irish phrases Gabhaltas-cinne or Gavail-kinne, which meant "family settlement" (Modern Gaelic gabhail ...
The Salic law (/ ˈsælɪk / or / ˈseɪlɪk /; Latin: Lex salica), also called the Salian law, was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by the first Frankish King, Clovis. The written text is in Late Latin [1] and contains some of the earliest known instances of Old Dutch. [2] It remained the basis of Frankish law ...
Divided into 16 sections, it contained 362 articles concerning family and inheritance, property, and debt recovery. [2] It was the main source of law in New France from the earliest settlement, but other provincial customs were sometimes invoked in the early period. The Custom of Paris was introduced in 1627 by the Company of One Hundred ...
Adoption in ancient Rome was primarily a legal procedure for transferring paternal power (potestas) to ensure succession in the male line within Roman patriarchal society. The Latin word adoptio refers broadly to "adoption", which was of two kinds: the transferral of potestas over a free person from one head of household to another; and ...
Ancient Greek laws consist of the laws and legal institutions of ancient Greece. The existence of certain general principles of law in ancient Greece is implied by the custom of settling a difference between two Greek states, or between members of a single state, by resorting to external arbitration. The general unity of ancient Greek law shows ...