Primogeniture definition, the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents. Click Here for Items Related To - Agnatic Primogeniture Primogeniture ( English: / p r aɪ m ə ˈ dʒ ɛ n ɪ tʃ ər / ) is the right, by law or custom, of the paternally acknowledged, firstborn son to inherit his parent's entire or main estate, in preference to daughters, elder illegitimate sons, younger sons and collateral relatives. If there are no eligible descendants or brothers or fraternal nephews, the top title passes to the eldest surviving sister and the rest is split among younger sisters. ), everything passes to the eldest daughter of your eldest brother. A younger sister comes before the children of a dead older sister. Other great-grandchildren are entirely excluded, i.e. If there are no surviving sons and no dead sons who left sons, the eldest surviving daughter inherits the top title and the rest is split among the younger daughters (and daughters of deceased brothers, if any). The heir is determined through two mechanisms: absolute cognatic primogeniture and proximity of blood. The sons of living daughters and living sisters cannot inherit. It generally involves the inheritance of property, rights, names or titles by persons related through male kin. Daughters come before granddaughters left by dead sons. From Agnatic Succession to Absolute Primogeniture: The Shift to Equal Rights of Succession to Thrones and Titles in the Modern European Constitutional Monarchy Christine Corcos Louisiana State University Law Center, A granddaughter left by a dead son is the heir unless you have a daughter who has a son, in which case the daughter is the heir. It is also known as (full) cognatic primogeniture today. If all daughters are dead and some of them left children, everything passes to the eldest son of the eldest daughter who had sons or, barring such grandsons, to the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter.
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