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Перевод: primogeniture

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первородство; право старшего сына на наследование недвижимости

Тезаурус:

1. England traditionally had inheritance laws based on the principle of primogeniture, that is the property should pass to a single heir, usually the eldest son, rather than being divided between all surviving children.
2. It was, however, the advice of the law officers of the day, and it has been assumed to be correct (inter alia by Parliament in the Royal Titles Act 1953), that upon failure of male heirs, primogeniture should apply as well to females.
3. As I indicated in chapter 1, whilst the system of primogeniture had been used traditionally by the aristocracy as a way of passing on an estate intact, the expanding entrepreneurial business class of the early industrial period tended to favour partible inheritance.
4. This doubt allowed the possibility of a claim by his rival, Matthew Stewart, earl of Lennox, even though by the rules of primogeniture Arran had the stronger case; for he was descended from the son of James II's daughter Mary, whereas Lennox was descended from her daughter.
5. But despite its drawbacks, primogeniture did offer a rule of thumb that commanded widespread respect.
6. Subsequent reliefs were smaller: in October 1241 Adam of Purton, nephew and senior co-heir of Thomas of Sandford, paid ten marks for a grant of seisin of the wardenship of Braydon Forest, which belonged to him by right of primogeniture.
7. Under the system of primogeniture it will be known from childhood that one sibling will be privileged over all the rest; by contrast partible inheritance requires a much greater degree of co-operation between siblings in adult life, especially if they inherit land or a firm which provides them with a common livelihood.
8. He explained this extraordinary assertion to his family by saying that the aristocratic rule of primogeniture was the same as that by which Jesus Christ had inherited the kingdom of heaven (at which his daughter, Nancy, remarked, "Oh, I thought you meant it would be a blow at the faith because the Lord's son would lose the right to choose the clergyman.").
9. The device also enabled the lord to mitigate the rigour of primogeniture and make provision for younger sons, for daughters, and for the endowment of Masses for his soul and the souls of members of his family.
10. So primogeniture was not automatically accepted; and where it was, it could create problems of a rather different sort.
11. In contrast to much of Western Europe, primogeniture was not practised in Russia: a father's property was divided among his heirs.
12. It implied, first, primogeniture amongst males, i.e. inheritance by the eldest son, if there was one.
13. At this time heirs were not selected exclusively through primogeniture, but by election.