ultimogeniture

Previously, ultimogeniture had prevailed among them in these areas.

The customs of primogeniture and ultimogeniture are not found.

Some folklorists connect this tale to the more general practice of ultimogeniture, in which the youngest child would inherit.

By contrast, Chukchi people practiced male ultimogeniture.

He would eventually become, through ultimogeniture, and his own purchases, the largest landowner in Groton with an estate of approximately 500 acres.

However, in some places other customs, like male ultimogeniture or even female ultimogeniture, also exist.

In eastern Westphalia, male ultimogeniture prevailed.

Probably the fact that the youngest son inherited the parental tent among Mongols has lead to the widespread but mistaken conception that they practiced ultimogeniture.

Customs of male primogeniture and ultimogeniture are also common in most of Switzerland; studies reveal that there is no overall preference for one practice over the other.

In medieval England, the principle of patrilineal ultimogeniture (i.e. inheritance by the youngest surviving male child) was known as Borough-English.

In early Greek myths, kingship was conferred by marriage to a tribal nymph, who was selected by ultimogeniture or success in a race.

The Ethnographic Atlas (1998), gives the following figures regarding land distribution: primogeniture predominates in 247 societies, while ultimogeniture prevails in 16.

Male primogeniture and ultimogeniture were also common in many other states, like Hannover, Silesia, Brandenburg, and Saxony.

In northern Westphalia, male primogeniture prevailed in Münster, while male ultimogeniture prevailed in Tecklenburg.

Male primogeniture also prevailed in Luxembourg, and in Nord (France), customs of ultimogeniture and primogeniture were also common.

The story may simply reflect an attempt to explain the ancient practice of ultimogeniture, whereby the last-born exercised superior rights of inheritance, a practice later replaced by primogeniture.

It is possible that Borough English or Ultimogeniture the tradition of inheritance by the last-born of a parent's estate, which was recorded in the village as late as 1801, began with the Meonwara.

In Wales, after the union with England, some argue that male primogeniture prevailed among freeholders and the gentry, while male ultimogeniture was predominant among copyholders (who were the majority of the peasant population).

According to some sources, in Germany, male primogeniture was generally the rule of succession to entailed family estates and family-trust entails, while male ultimogeniture was generally the rule of succession to peasant estates.

However, the Kachin or Jingpo people, who inhabit the northern parts of the country, are famous in the Anthropological field for their complicated but highly structured social system that, if strictly followed, would result in patrilineal ultimogeniture in most cases.

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.

Indeed, customs of ultimogeniture have been explained as a consequence of the farmers' desire to postpone a few years their age of retirement due to feelings of being "early dethroned" if they chose their eldest sons as successors.

Ultimogeniture of the ancestral seat was also traditional in Mongolia, where Genghis Khan passed the heart of the Mongol Empire to his fourth son, Tolui as the empire with its conquests was to be partitioned.

However, in some regions all sons inherited, while in others (Principality of Liege, Duchy of Limburg, county of Loon), male primogeniture prevailed, and in others (Brabant, Fauquemont) male ultimogeniture prevailed.

In the regions of Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Tyrol and western Upper Austria, primogeniture predominates, while ultimogeniture predominates in most of Lower Austria and central and eastern Upper Austria.