Partible inheritance, sometimes also called partitive, is a system of inheritance in which property is apportioned among heirs. It contrasts in particular...

prescribed shares (partible inheritance or "gavelkind"), depending upon the custom of that particular manor. In practice, local rules of inheritance were often...

far rarer historically than primogeniture (sole inheritance by the first-born) or partible inheritance (division of the estate among the children). Ultimogeniture...

law, gavelkind, a form of partible inheritance, was the system of land inheritance. The Normans called the Irish inheritance law the name gavelkind because...

body". There are other kinds of inheritance rules if the heritage can be divided: heirs portioners and partible inheritance. In hereditary monarchies the...

land inheritance traditionally prevalent among English, Dutch and New Englander peasants was partible inheritance. The pattern of land inheritance traditionally...

firstborn child (absolute primogeniture). Its opposite analogue is partible inheritance. The common definition given is also known as male-line primogeniture...

stressed the idea of a unified empire, the gradual dissolution by partible inheritance continued. Mainly Lothair's Middle Frankish realm combined lengthy...

parcels to various owners. The partible inheritance scheme outlined in the Napoleonic code, which specified that all inheritance must be equally divided among...

Middle Ages. Descended from Tegrimo Guidi, the family practised partible inheritance and in the thirteenth century began to split into separate cadet...

form of testate partible inheritance which mandates how the deceased's estate is to be disposed and which tends to guarantee an inheritance for family of...

inheritance remained a matter of chance, rather than intent. When Louis died in 840, the Carolingians adhered to the custom of partible inheritance,...

increased the likelihood of partible inheritance following French custom, in which Henry would receive the English maternal inheritance and Geoffrey the Angevin...

Sole inheritance or unitary inheritance is the passing of an estate from a person to a single heir upon death. It contrasts with partible inheritance. Forms...

found as a prefix to other terms such as gavelkind, a system of partible inheritance formerly found in parts of the UK and Ireland. A gavel may also have...

programming, inheritance is the mechanism of basing an object or class upon another object (prototype-based inheritance) or class (class-based inheritance), retaining...

this instability made it unlikely to endure. The French custom of partible inheritance at the time would lead to political fragmentation. Indeed, if Henry...

Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865...

and inheritance practices where land was divided equally among sons or other heirs. Kent's inheritance pattern was a system of partible inheritance and...

Inheritance Partible inheritance — inheritances such as farms can be broken up amongst heirs; the culture of Catholic Bavaria Impartible inheritance —...

infancy. According to the Frankish custom of partible inheritance, Louis had expected to share his inheritance with his brothers, Charles the Younger, King...

Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-35786-4. Linehan, Peter (2011). Spain:A Partible Inheritance 1157-1300. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Mattoso, José (2007). D. Afonso...

Asociación Española de Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos): pp. 169–229 Linehan, Peter (2008). Spain, 1157-1300: A Partible Inheritance. Wiley. v t e...

are other kinds of formulae for inheritance, if the heritage can be divided: heirs portioners and partible inheritance. There are also other types of order...

arrangements in carucates (these forming vills assembled in leets), partible inheritance patterns of common lands held in by kin, resistance to manorialism...

The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini. Set in the fictional world of...

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territorial splintering, which the earlier Frankish tradition of partible inheritance (equal division) suffered from (e.g. under the Merovingians and subsequent...

Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual...

was often divided under different Merovingian kings, due to the partible inheritance practised by the Franks. The late seventh century saw a period of...