primogeniture

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It’s possible in the post-Hearst world to escape into a more ordinary and purposeful life than the slow suffocation of palace and primogeniture.

From Washington Post

Any system of primogeniture — the transmission of power from firstborn to firstborn — creates a tough reality.

From Washington Post

And though the caretakers of the International List claim theirs is the only true list, since it was the first, there’s nothing that says primogeniture equals ownership in this particular case.

From New York Times

Had the infant Prince Charles been a girl, then under the rules of male primogeniture Andrew would be our future king and this would be a full-blown constitutional crisis.

From The Guardian

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