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  2. Historical inheritance systems - Wikipedia

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    Some cultures also employ matrilineal succession, where property can only pass along the female line, most commonly going to the sister's sons of the decedent; but also, in some societies, from the mother to her daughters. Some ancient societies and most modern states employ egalitarian inheritance, without discrimination based on gender and/or ...

  3. Primogeniture - Wikipedia

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    English primogeniture endures mainly in titles of nobility: any first-placed direct male-line descendant (e.g. eldest son's son's son) inherits the title before siblings and similar, this being termed "by right of substitution" for the deceased heir; secondly where children were only daughters they would enjoy the fettered use (life use) of an ...

  4. Kandyan law - Wikipedia

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    Kandyan law defines immovable property as either Paraveni meaning ancestral property and acquired property in the case of inheritance from a deceased estate. The law defines the different levels rights of the deceased siblings, spouses and children, both legitimate or illegitimate to these two types of property.

  5. Birthright - Wikipedia

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    Birthright is the concept of things being due to a person upon or by fact of their birth, or due to the order of their birth. These may include rights of citizenship based on the place where the person was born or the citizenship of their parents, and inheritance rights to property owned by parents or others.

  6. These families have boxes of offer letters for their land ...

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    Evelyn Booker, whose family has been through the process, said she encourages other Black landowners to do the work necessary to maintain clear and legal title to their property.

  7. Matrilineal society of Meghalaya - Wikipedia

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    The youngest daughter of the family, the Ka Khadduh, [9] inherits all ancestral property. After marriage, husbands live in the mother-in-law's home. The mother's surname is taken by children. When no daughters are born to a couple, they adopt a daughter and pass their rights to property to her.

  8. Inheritance - Wikipedia

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    Some cultures also employ matrilineal succession, where property can only pass along the female line, most commonly going to the sister's sons of the decedent; but also, in some societies, from the mother to her daughters. Some ancient societies and most modern states employ egalitarian inheritance, without discrimination based on gender and/or ...

  9. Hindu Succession Act, 1956 - Wikipedia

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    This invariably grants females property rights. The property of a Hindu female dying intestate, or without a will, shall devolve in the following order: upon the sons and daughters (including the children of any pre-deceased son or daughter) and the husband, upon the heirs of the husband, upon the father and mother, upon the heirs of the father ...