Search results for "Primogeniture" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • succession is the practice of "primogeniture," whereby all property ... by inheritance laws and traditions. Primogeniture has the effect of keeping ...
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  • It should be noted that in different regions the honor of primogeniture ... :Thou art the eldest son of Shu, his primogeniture. :O Geb, Osiris ...
    20 KB (3,212 words) - 17:11, 23 October 2022
  • The Árpáds or Arpads was the ruling dynasty of the federation of the Magyar tribes (ninth-tenth centuries) and of the Kingdom of Hungary (1000/1001 ...
    26 KB (3,604 words) - 06:17, 13 June 2023
  • while confusing in places, appears to favor primogeniture for male heirs, or their descendants, and proximity of blood for female heirs and their descendants ...
    12 KB (1,837 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
  • The introduction of primogeniture in succession to the proved less successful. Although he designed his eldest son heir, Abaoji's son failed ...
    11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
  • argument proceeded, his senior descendant by primogeniture inherited his powers, which were fatherly and political. The first state, therefore, originated ...
    12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
  • There is more of a tendency nowadays towards primogeniture. Each brother in the family then formed his own branch of the yavusa, called the mataqali ...
    27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
  • using a pagan right. The tradition of primogeniture was not firmly established at this time. In fact, any son, legitimate or not, might decide ...
    17 KB (2,606 words) - 17:22, 27 October 2020
  • them up into nuclear families, by abolishing primogeniture and creating a double tax on households that had more than one son living in the household ...
    17 KB (2,693 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2023
  • changing the general rules of succession (primogeniture) would be disruptive, using Yuan Shao and Liu Biao as counterexamples. Cao Pi was also cultivating ...
    16 KB (2,578 words) - 19:30, 25 November 2023
  • Turks, the Jurchens did not observe a law of primogeniture. According to tradition, any capable son or nephew could be chosen to become leader. ...
    17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
  • of a hereditary aristocracy and the value of primogeniture. His views have also been abused by modern revisionists; for instance, even though Montesquieu ...
    17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
  • and wealth in the Mughal empire rather than primogeniture. That often led to rebellions and wars of succession. As a result, a complex political ...
    17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
  • Europe, basing the succession to agnatic primogeniture, as well as requiring Orthodox faith from the monarch and dynasts, as well as from the consort ...
    20 KB (3,088 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
  • little or no inheritance under the laws of primogeniture. William promised that if they brought their own horse, armor, and weapons to join him, they ...
    20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
  • During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, male primogeniture was established. This allowed the eldest son to inherit all the property instead ...
    20 KB (3,412 words) - 17:12, 6 February 2022
  • The Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery, restricted primogeniture, mandated universal public education, provided for affordable farm land ...
    23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
  • The age-old custom of primogeniture is alive on the islands and has served to maintain culture, family and homesteads through the generations ...
    28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
  • According to male primogeniture, the Suffolks--Brandons and later Greys--comprised the junior branch of the heirs of Henry VII. The Third Succession ...
    32 KB (5,051 words) - 22:48, 21 October 2022
  • most European Monarchies which practiced primogeniture, the Timurids, following Genghis Khan's example, refused to leave an entire kingdom to ...
    33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023

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