Sentence examples for equal inheritance from inspiring English sources

UK and US, 1922: The UK finally allows equal inheritance.

Iceland, 1850: Iceland becomes first country to institute unconditional equal inheritance rights.

France, 1791: Revolutionary France gives women equal inheritance rights (although they lose them later, when the monarchy is restored).

And similar results are found when daughters do not have equal inheritance rights to property from their parents.

But that war was lost when gay sex was legalised, and now civil partnership confers equal inheritance rights.

Several countries suspend equal inheritance laws to keep farms together, and some allow family firms to be unequally divvied up.

Modern Anglo-American law has come to recognize adopted children as, in most jurisdictions and for the most part, equal in inheritance rights to natural children.

GIVE or take a sex chromosome, people (and most other sexually reproducing organisms) get an equal genetic inheritance from father and mother.

The sons and daughters of devadasis had equal rights of inheritance, an unusual practice among Hindus.

Under Canadian family law, for instance, men and women have equal rights to inheritance and property acquired during a marriage.

Furthermore, to the extent that a meritocratic society measures and rewards intelligence, which is to some extent a genetic inheritance, equal opportunity becomes difficult even to define.