| What might lead to marital disaster elsewhere works among the Canela because the men believe in partible paternity. |
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| The answer probably comes from the practice of partible inheritance, there being at times more than one East Saxon king. |
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| All the legal systems of France stipulated one form or another of partible inheritance. |
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| Large families and the practice of partible inheritance strained lands that under the best circumstances could only sustain sparse populations. |
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| In principle, both men and women own property such as land, buildings, and animals, and inheritance is partible. |
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| Particularly by the sixteenth century, however, an additional tension had been introduced into the system of partible inheritance. |
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| Equal partible inheritance is the norm by both law and custom. |
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| Only in Kent and in Wales did the custom of gavelkind produce the partible inheritance which reduced many noble families to penury on the continent. |
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| Early transfers of property, large dowries, and a system of partible inheritance favored the entry of sons and sons-in-law into commercial ventures at an early age. |
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| Equally influenced by the nobility's strong tradition of partible inheritance, noblewomen shared men's overwhelming preference for naming immediate family members as heirs. |
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| As a result of land reallocations in the past, partible inheritance practices among landowners resulted in plots of dwindling size in only a few generations. |
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| Powys withstood encroachments from England and Gwynedd throughout its existence, although the Welsh custom of partible inheritance caused rivalries among the ruling family. |
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| A method of partible inheritance, Cyfran divided up land into smaller parcels so that each son had property. |
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| In practice of the court the partible inheritance was declared unassignable and immune from attachment. |
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| Beliefs about partible paternity seem to help them to do so, while distributing their parental efforts roughly in proportion to the likelihood that they really have fathered the children in question. |
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| Like other towns in northwestern Europe, London had partible inheritance, so daughters might receive additional property besides the dowry. |
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| Testamentary freedom is carried out within the limits foreseen by the law, where the most important is the one regarding partible inheritance. |
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| Partible inheritance, Jefferson hoped, would force wealth to be divided successively over generations. |
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