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Cornwall, Duke of
Cornwall, Duke of, one of the titles of the eldest son of the reigning sovereign of the United Kingdom. He is Duke of Cornwall by inheritance, and is usually made Prince of Wales and Earl of...
Consanguinity, or kindred
Consanguinity, or kindred, the connection or rela-tion of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. It is either lineal or collateral. Lineal is that which subsists between persons, of whom one is descended in...
filiation
filiation [Late Latin filiatio relationship of a son and father, from Latin filius son] 1 : a legal relationship of a parent and esp. a father and child that creates rights and obligations [used to help...
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primogeniture
primogeniture 1 : the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents 2 : exclusive right of inheritance ;specif : a right to take all the real property of an estate belonging...
reasonable
reasonable 1 a : being in accordance with reason, fairness, duty, or prudence b : of an appropriate degree or kind c : supported or justified by fact or circumstance [a belief that force was necessary...
unreasonable
unreasonable : not reasonable : beyond what can be accepted: as a : clearly inappropriate, excessive, or harmful in degree or kind [an delay] [an restraint of trade] b : lacking justification in fact or circumstance...
Porphyrogenitism
The principle of succession in royal families especially among the Eastern Roman emperors by which a younger son if born after the accession of his father to the throne was preferred to an elder son who...
Rastell
Rastell, John, and William, his son, lawyers and printers of the time of Henry VIII. John Rastell translated from the French the 'Abridgment of the Statutes prior to the time of Henry VII.' He also abridged...
Executory devise
Executory devise. Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future estate or interest in lands or chattels (though, in the case of chattels personal, it is...
Per capita
Per capita (by the number of individuals), opposed to per stirpes (by the number of families); if a man die and leave all his goods 'among my grandsons,' having nine grandsons, one of whom was an...
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