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primogeniture (iou)



primogeniture noun. E17.
[medieval Latin primogenitura, from Latin primo at first + genitura GENITURE.]
The fact or condition of being a first-born child. Freq. in right of primogeniture. E17.
The right of the first-born child of a family, esp. a son, to succeed or to inherit property or title to the exclusion of other claimants; spec. the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passes to the eldest son. M17.
E. A. Freeman Primogeniture..supplanted the..custom of equal partition of lands.
primogenitureship noun (now rare) = PRIMOGENITURE noun 2 E17.