| My father believed in primogeniture, where the eldest son gets everything, so as the third son I was, relatively speaking, on my own. |
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| Inheritance customs stress the right of primogeniture, which gives preference to the oldest brother. |
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| The old rule of primogeniture was abandoned, leading indirectly to the breaking up of collections as all heirs shared equally in an estate. |
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| The people of Spiti have a system of polyandry and primogeniture to combat the short supply of resources that are available in the raw mountains. |
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| My claim is based on primogeniture, that I came from the first born and am therefore first in line. |
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| Monaco still remains a principality that follows primogeniture, meaning that males take precedence over females in the line of succession. |
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| From feudalism a clan chief gained the concept of absolute ownership of land, and the system of succession by primogeniture. |
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| In the odd way of primogeniture it was said that were Nina-Cecilia a male she would have been the Duke of Portland. |
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| As part of the feudal system, primogeniture maintained the political and social status of the aristocracy. |
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| That pattern persists in some rural communities, although primogeniture has been illegal since 1804 under the Napoleonic Code. |
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| In the egalitarian spirit of the French Revolution, the newly independent Haiti abolished primogeniture. |
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| 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. |
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| The tradition of male primogeniture meant that, where there was no son, the inheritance moved sideways to an uncle or a nephew. |
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| Later, the principle of primogeniture was applied, which meant that the succession went to the firstborn son of the ruling monarch. |
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| They removed primogeniture, a self inflicted blow given Baldwin's own interests as a man of property. |
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| The modern equivalent of primogeniture in the U.S., as Schine sees it, is divorce. |
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| The older brother avails himself of his primogeniture in order to be demanding towards the younger ones. |
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| But to avoid fiefs being subdivided and becoming non-viable, the rule of primogeniture prevailed, whereby the eldest son inherited the entire estate. |
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| The rule of male primogeniture, by which the eldest son of a monarch becomes king even if he has an elder sister, will end if a bill published today is passed. |
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| The crown is handed down in a direct line by order of male primogeniture, to the exclusion of female descendants. |
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| The rule can be summarized as follows: First in line of succession is the male issue, whether legitimate or not, by primogeniture. |
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| The name originated from a case in Nottingham in 1327 when the English borough, or part of the town, held to ultimogeniture, the French part to primogeniture. |
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| 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. |
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| Anglo-Saxon liberalism derives from the relative independence of children from parents and from the inequality among brothers reflected in primogeniture. |
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| It is only Puru, the youngest, who agrees and inherits Yayati's throne, with the people being summoned and explained at length why primogeniture has not been followed. |
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| On his deathbed Richard named John as his heir, although by the law of primogeniture Arthur, the son of an older brother, Geoffrey, should have succeeded him. |
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| Noble estates, on the other hand, gradually came to descend by primogeniture in much of western Europe aside from Germany. |
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| And, if it is intended to govern succession, it can be interpreted to mandate agnatic seniority, not direct primogeniture. |
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| Then they positioned themselves as reformers, overturning primogeniture and the treizième, an archaic perquisite that, until 2007, entitled the Seigneur to an eight-per-cent cut of any real-estate transaction. |
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| Will preference be accorded to primogeniture? |
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| Our defense of North Korea-ruled through primogeniture by Kim Il Sung's son, Kim Jong Il, at the head of the Stalinist bureaucracy-is a defense of the overturn and expropriation of capitalism. |
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| In the same vein, the principles of primogeniture, whereby the eldest child takes precedence in the division of an estate, and of male privilege, whereby the male children take precedence, have likewise been abolished. |
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| The monarchy is constutional and proceeds by primogeniture. |
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| In the 15th century, it was Jean Grimaldi who organized the Rules of Succession on the Rock: First in line of succession were the male descendents, legitimate or illegitimate, in order of primogeniture. |
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| As for the protection of the right to property, in Cameroon there is neither primogeniture, nor male privilege in relation to the acquisition of property. |
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| If there is no male descendant in either branch, the crown is handed down by order of primogeniture to the female descendant of the reigning dynasty. |
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| Upon the death of Richard's father prior to the death of Edward III, Richard, by primogeniture, became the heir apparent to the throne. |
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| In a kind of primogeniture, these usually are inherited by either eldest male or female. |
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| Unlike England with the strict primogeniture where the eldest son inherited everything and did not provide for others. |
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| As such, his arguments centered on this being a more suitable way to govern the succession than primogeniture. |
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| Unfortunately for Bruce, the Scots' tradition for the preceding 200 years had been demonstrably different, relying on primogeniture instead. |
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| That entailment clearly reflects the operation of agnatic primogeniture, also known as the Salic law. |
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| In a system of absolute primogeniture that disregards gender, female heirs apparent occur. |
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| In complex cases, this can mean that there are closer blood relatives to the deceased monarch than the next in line according to primogeniture. |
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| Alfar's analysis cuts to the quick of the socioeconomic structures that underlie marriage, primogeniture, monarchy, and imperialism. |
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| Upon Zhao Yingqi's death in 115 BC, his younger son Zhao Xing was named as his successor in violation of Chinese primogeniture. |
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| He targeted laws such as entail and primogeniture by which the oldest son inherited all the land. |
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| These represent the primogeniture and entail of the white overclass. |
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| After the reign of David I, the Scottish throne was passed according to rules of primogeniture, moving from father to son, or where not possible, brother to brother. |
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| Hughes later set up a colony in America for the younger sons of the English gentry, who could not inherit under the laws of primogeniture, naming the town Rugby. |
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| The Rurikids maintained large landholdings by practicing primogeniture, whereby all land was passed to the eldest sons, rather than dividing it up among all sons. |
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| They also have to make allowance, in place of primogeniture, for the practice of tanistry, that is, the naming of a successor who was not necessarily the ruler's son. |
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| This has often led, especially in Europe in the Middle Ages, to conflict between the principle of primogeniture and the principle of proximity of blood. |
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| The document, while confusing in places, appears to favour primogeniture for male heirs, or their descendants, and proximity of blood for female heirs and their descendants. |
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| Sometimes, however, primogeniture can operate through the female line. |
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| As the Basques had no law of joint inheritance, but practised primogeniture, Lupus in effect founded a hereditary dynasty of Basque rulers of an expanded Aquitaine. |
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| However, Edward I did reform Welsh succession to introduce male preference primogeniture, a reform which facilitated the inheritance by English marcher lords of Welsh lands. |
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| Chief forms are agnatic seniority and agnatic primogeniture. |
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