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Definitions of primogeniture in various dictionaries:
noun - right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son
The state of being the firstborn or eldest child of the same parents.
The right of the eldest child, especially the eldest son, to inherit the entire estate of one or both parents.
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| From Latin for "first birth", it's the rule that only the oldest son inherited the property of a parent |
| From the Old Latin for "first born", it was the feudal law by which only eldest sons got an inheritance |
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| the state of being the firstborn child. |
| right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son |
| the custom by which all of a family's property goes to the oldest son when the father dies |
| The state of being the first born or eldest child of the same parents. |
| Law The right of the eldest child, especially the eldest son, to inherit the entire estate of one or both parents. |
| Primogeniture description |
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| Primogeniture (English: ) is the right, by law or custom, of the paternally acknowledged, firstborn son to inherit his parent's entire or main estate, in preference to daughters, elder illegitimate sons, younger sons and collateral relatives; in some cases the estate may instead be the inheritance of the firstborn child or occasionally the firstborn daughter. The descendant (often the son) of a deceased elder sibling (typically elder brother) inherits before a living younger sibling by right of substitution for the deceased heir. In the absence of any children, brothers succeed, individually, to the inheritance by seniority of age (subject to substitution). Among siblings, sons usually inherit before daughters. In the absence of male descendants in the male-line, there are variations of primogeniture which allocate the inheritance to a daughter or a brother or, in the absence of either, to another collateral relative, in a specified order (e.g. male-preference primogeniture, Salic pri |