primogeniture
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The last time the U.K.’s law of succession was altered, to end male primogeniture, was in 2013 and it took nearly two years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Victoria privately believed that her eldest daughter would make a better ruler than her eldest son, Chernock said, but she never attempted to challenge male primogeniture publicly.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022
They banned inherited titles of nobility - duke and earl and the like - and prohibited the European inheritance practices of primogeniture and entail, by which massive estates were handed down through generations.
From Washington Times • May 8, 2019
Rather, it’s primogeniture, and every major move since—Durant on the Warriors, Chris Paul to the Rockets, etc.—is a direct descendant.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2018
In Virginia, however, laws abolishing primogeniture and entail had been passed during the Revolution.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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