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Coparceners or parceners
this case personal; for if the eldest sister were dead, her issue should not choose first, but the next sister. But if an advowson descended in coparcenary, and the sisters could not agree in the presentation, the
primogeniture
real property of an estate belonging under English law to the eldest son or eldest male in the next degree of consanguinity if there is no son of an ancestor to the exclusion of all female and
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Marquis or marquess
His title is 'most honourable'; and his sons, by courtesy, are styled lords and his daughters, ladies. The eldest son takes by courtesy the next lower title. … Marquis or marquess [fr. marquis, Fr.; marchio, Lat.; margrave, Ger.], one of the second order of nobility, next in order to a duke. The first marquis was Robert de Vere, Ear of Oxford, whom Richard II.
Inheritance
to the three preceding rules. (6) That the collateral heir of the person last seized must be his next collateral kinsman of the whole blood. (7) That in collateral inheritances the male stocks shall be preferred to … be admitted before the female. (3) That where there are two or more males in equal degree, the eldest only shall inherit; but the females all together. (4) That the legal descendants ininfinitum, of any person deceased,
Treason
been created by subsequent statutes:- If any person shall endeavour to deprive or hinder any person, being the next in succession to the crown, according to the limitations of the (English) Act of Settlement (12 & 13 … lord the king (a queen regnant is within these words), of our lady his queen or of their eldest son and heir. (2) If a man do violate the king's companion (i.e., his wife), or the king's
Presentation
present himself, Walsh v. Bishop of Lincoln, (1875) LR 10 CP 518. The sale of the right of next presentation is invalidated by s. 1 of the Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 48), which … Co. Litt. 388 a. Joint-tenants and tenants in common should present jointly; and if co-parceners cannot agree, the eldest sister is entitled to the first turn, the second sister the second turn, et sic de c'teris, every
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