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  2. Primogeniture - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... (full) cognatic or lineal primogeniture is a form of primogeniture in which ... the quasi-Salic principle ...

  3. Systems of social stratification - Wikipedia

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    Family rank refers to the status of family members within the family group. In customary law, males held a higher rank than their female counterparts. A person's rank was ultimately determined by the principle of primogeniture. On the basis of that principle, oldest sons always had a higher rank than younger brothers and all sisters.

  4. Historical inheritance systems - Wikipedia

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    It was almost always organized around principles of male primogeniture. The Spanish mayorazgo and the Portuguese morgado also resembled the Continental fideicommissum more than the noble customs of Great Britain and most French regions; noble customs of primogeniture in these countries were more ancient and thus took different legal forms.

  5. Odelsrett - Wikipedia

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    The Odelsrett is an ancient Scandinavian allodial title which has survived in Norway as odelsrett and existed until recent times in Sweden as bördsrätt.. The Norwegian law stipulates the right, when a farm is to be sold, of any member of the family, by the principle of primogeniture, to buy it, consistent with Åsetesrett.

  6. Agnatic seniority - Wikipedia

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    Agnatic seniority is a patrilineal principle of inheritance where the order of succession to the throne prefers the monarch's younger brother over the monarch's own sons. A monarch's children (the next generation) succeed only after the males of the elder generation have all been exhausted.

  7. Matrilineal succession - Wikipedia

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    matrilineal primogeniture where the eldest female child of the subject is entitled to the hereditary succession before her younger sisters, and her brothers are not entitled at all. matrilineal ultimogeniture where the youngest daughter is the heir. This system is found among the Khasis of India. rotation among female relatives.

  8. War of succession - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... the principle of male primogeniture originated in Western Europe in the 11th century, ... (PDF). Birmingham ...

  9. Absolute primogeniture - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Absolute primogeniture