Crossword-Solution: PRIMOGENITURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Primogeniture | a. | The state of being the firstborn of the same parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family. |
| Primogeniture | a. | The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “PRIMOGENITURE”
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| LAND ownership in the same families, system of maintaining | 1 answer |
| Right of being firstborn | 1 answer |
| an exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest son | 1 answer |
| right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | 1 answer |
| Right of inheritance to the eldest son | 1 answer |
| Inheritance? | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PRIMOGENITURE (5)
Thence came, in the first place, the feudal and patriarchal custom of recognizing only one heir; then, by a quite contrary application of the principle of equality, the admission of all the children to a share in their father's estate, and, very recently also among us, the definitive abolition of the right of primogeniture.
The acquaintance of a few fellow-exiles is made and that of a half-dozen English families, mothers and daughters and a younger son or two, whom the ferocious primogeniture custom has cast out of the homes of their childhood to economize on the Continent.
Each family ruined by the Revolution and the abolition of the law of primogeniture thought only of itself, and not at all of the great family of the noblesse.
The former of these enactments was that which in opposition to the English law of primogeniture declared that the estate of a parent should descend in equal proportion to all members of the family.
The insolent prerogative of primogeniture was unknown; the two sexes were placed on a just level; all the sons and daughters were entitled to an equal portion of the patrimonial estate; and if any of the sons had been intercepted by a premature death, his person was represented, and his share was divided, by his surviving children.