(1) The practice of primogeniture was a good way to keep wealth-and its polygamy potential-intact through the generations.

(2) So primogeniture was not automatically accepted; and where it was, it could create problems of a rather different sort.

(3) It implied, first, primogeniture amongst males, i.e. inheritance by the eldest son, if there was one.

(4) But despite its drawbacks, primogeniture did offer a rule of thumb that commanded widespread respect.

(5) In a kind of republican primogeniture, autocratic leaders groom their sons to succeed them.

(6) Firms that rely on primogeniture, he notes, perform poorly.

(7) Here then emerges the historical difficulty of Primogeniture.

(8) He inherited his father by right of his primogeniture.

(9) The causes that the primogeniture was carried out in property by the nobles in the medieval Western Europe was not only in the interest of the Over Lord.

(10) The current law of male primogeniture only allowed Elizabeth II to be Queen because she did not have any brothers.

(11) The British legal system of primogeniture and entail guaranteed that a family's landholdings would be wholly retained by its heirs.

(12) Under the premise of the primogeniture[http://], the Queen is usually when no other male heir choice of helplessness.

(13) By virtue of primogeniture, in some cultures the first-born child has many privileges denied his brothers and sisters.

(14) As well as ending male primogeniture, the Prime Minister hopes to open the way for members of the Royal Family who marry a Roman Catholic being able to succeed to the Crown.

(15) At this time heirs were not selected exclusively through primogeniture, but by election.

(16) The Tea Partyers and talk-show hosts who define the new Republican Party believe in the opposite of primogeniture.

(17) Why does he go against the traditional Ancient Near Eastern practice of primogeniture, inheritance by the first born?

(18) Then Victoria was made Crown Princess to recognise the principles of equal primogeniture.

(19) On his deathbed Richard named John as his heir, although by the law of primogeniture Arthur, the son of an older brother, Geoffrey, should have succeeded him.

(20) In principle, the title of emperor was transmitted from father to son via primogeniture, as endorsed by Confucianism.

(21) Informal tests of this proposition are conducted by considering primogeniture and urban growth as proxies for wealth stability.