impartible

The system has proved relatively impractical for impartible inheritance during more recent centuries.

Impartible inheritance has the effect of keeping large estates united and thus perpetuating an elite.

Impartible inheritance was a deep-rooted tradition among german peasants.

This litigation decided that the estate was impartible and succession was to be governed by primogeniture.

Impartible inheritance - inheritance passed only to the oldest son; family farmland prevented from being broken up amongst heirs.

Armorial bearings are incorporeal and impartible hereditaments, inalienable, and descendable according to the law of arms.

For the German Tyroleans, the social center is the Hof, the individual estate and its land, ideally passed down the generations by impartible inheritance to the eldest son.

Because of the long-standing tradition of impartible inheritance in German-speaking Europe, ownership of a Hof had often been tied to direct patrilineal descent over centuries.

Leaseholds are impartible - that is, if you are the eldest son, you get everything, and if you are a younger son, you get nothing but screwed.

However, it is a well-known fact that definitive celibacy was historically relatively uncommon in India and China, but relatively common in many European societies where inheritance was impartible.

Impartible and partible inheritance customs co-existed side by side, and marked variations were to be found in the degree to which elder and younger children were favoured or disadvantaged.

A preference for primogeniture or other forms of impartible inheritance was common among senior branches, such as the Albret or Durfort, and it is arguable that this contributed substantially to their survival.

However these are not true quarterings as the arms were changed in 1907 to be an impartible design of the two arms; the personal arms are precisely this design, with no quarterings despite its appearance.

The impartible zamindari of Saptur is the largest in the taluk and comprises an area of about 123 square miles, including a large portion of the eastern slopes of the Varushanadu hills.

In those parts of Baden where inheritance was impartible (the Black Forest region), male ultimogeniture prevailed, while in those parts of Württemberg where inheritance was impartible, male primogeniture was the general practice.