Sentence examples for descent succession from inspiring English sources

Polygyny was permitted, and descent, succession, and inheritance followed the male line.

Descent, succession, and inheritance were patrilineal, except in the case of one group among whom descent was traced through both the male and female lines.

Descent, succession, and inheritance, with the exception of a few groups in the north that are matrilineal, follow the male line.

Descent and succession are patrilineal.

Descent and succession to property are in the male line.

Descent, inheritance, and succession are matrilineal.

Descent, inheritance, and succession are patrilineal.

Descent, inheritance, and succession to office are usually patrilineal; however, the office of chief passes to one of the former chief's sister's sons, while the children of a woman married without bride-price inherit from her family instead of from their father's.

Descent-group membership, succession, and property inheritance are often through males, but among the Tampolense and Vagala the female line is used.

Matrilineal descent also governs inheritance, succession, and land tenure.

In order to achieve this purpose, it became necessary, after alienability of land and freedom of testation had developed, not only to establish unpartitioned descent as the rule of intestate succession but also to "entail" the land i.e., to prevent the owner from selling, giving away, or encumbering the land as well as from disposing of it by will.