primogeniture 的定义
- the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- Law. the system of inheritance or succession by the firstborn, specifically the eldest son.Compare postremogeniture.
primogeniture 近义词
等同于 inheritance
等同于 birthright
更多primogeniture例句
- Apart from a few royal families, primogeniture is no longer the norm in Western countries.
- The modern equivalent of primogeniture in the U.S., as Schine sees it, is divorce.
- That such an idea might come to M. d'Anjou is possible; his ancestors are mine, and it is only a question of primogeniture.
- No argument can ever restore general confidence in the institution of primogeniture, but it dies hard, even (p. 085) in England.
- Here his Lordship sighed, but not too deeply, for he remembered that the law of primogeniture is the sworn enemy to grief.
- The law of entail is traceable to the same human instincts as the law of primogeniture.
- At the same time, I did not believe nature had created men unequal, in the order of primogeniture from male to male.