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  2. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    The Mangur clan of the, Culturally, Mokri tribal confederation and, politically, Bolbas Federation [70] is an enatic clan, meaning members of the clan can only inherit their mothers last name and are considered to be a part of the mothers family. The entire Mokri tribe may have also practiced this form of enaticy before the collapse of their ...

  3. Matrilineality in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    The first potential redeemer declined, lest this marriage "ruin [his] inheritance". [52] Boaz, the next of kin, became Naomi's redeemer, married Ruth and became the father of Obed, who was the ancestor of David. [53] Ruth was the mother of Obed, but Naomi cared for the child, and their neighbors would say "A son has been born to Naomi". [54]

  4. Matrilineal succession - Wikipedia

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    One of the early dynasties of China had similar practices. Historians postulate that there, a father-in-law was typically succeeded by his son-in-law. However, this again is obviously not a female succeeding a female, but a form of succession by appointment: the monarch chose his successor, and formalized that appointment by marrying the chosen man with a royal daughter, which also worked as a ...

  5. Partus sequitur ventrem - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the Virginia royal colony in 1662, colonial governments incorporated the legal doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem into the laws of slavery, ruling that the children born in the colonies took the place or status of their mothers; therefore, children of enslaved mothers were born into slavery as chattel, regardless of the status of ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Historical inheritance systems - Wikipedia

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    Among the Igorot, the father's land is inherited by his eldest son and the mother's land is inherited by her eldest daughter. [6] A review of numerous studies found that the pattern of land inheritance traditionally prevalent among English, Dutch and New Englander peasants was partible inheritance. The pattern of land inheritance traditionally ...

  8. Babies switched at birth - Wikipedia

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    The babies were gradually introduced to their biological parents and returned to their birth homes. [32] On March 11, 2015, two newborn boys were switched in a hospital in the Indian state of Assam. The mother of one of the children became suspicious after one week, at which point she contacted the hospital.

  9. Posthumous birth - Wikipedia

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    Posthumous birth has special implications in law, potentially affecting the child's citizenship and legal rights, inheritance, and order of succession.Legal systems generally include special provisions regarding inheritance by posthumous children and the legal status of such children.