Sentence example with the word 'primogeniture'

primogeniture

aboriginality, atavism, coheirship, elderliness, heirloom, heritance, inveteracy, old age, postremogeniture, senility

Definition n. right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son

Last update: October 5, 2015


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He succeeded his father by right of primogeniture.   [Please select]

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Under the latter prince the country prospered greatly, and having introduced the principle of primogeniture, he died and was succeeded by his infant son, Bernard Ernest Freund (1800-1882), whose mother, Eleanora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, governed in his name until 1821.   [Please select]

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Loud protest was made against the right of primogeniture, but mother was firm.   [Please select]

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What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of primogeniture as the rule of inheritance.   [Please select]

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This gives a second storey, which in its turn receives provisions and an egg, the second in order of primogeniture.   [Please select]

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Everything therefore contributes to show that, in the Mason-bee, the females take the lead in the order of primogeniture.   [Please select]

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This right of the first-born son to the whole of the father's estate was known as primogeniture.   [Please select]

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Primogeniture, regarded by all English lawyers trained under the feudal system as the very basis of inheritance, was simply unknown.   [Please select]

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Is not some part traceable simply to the abolition of the old privileges and customs of primogeniture.   [Please select]

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In the strongly patriarchal and patrilinear system of the Chou and the developing primogeniture, children of secondary wives had a lower social status.   [Please select]

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Under the feudal system of the Chou strict primogeniture among the nobility existed: the fief went to the oldest son by the main wife.   [Please select]

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