Sentence examples for inheritance customs from inspiring English sources

Inheritance customs also hindered business consolidation.

These inheritance customs have long taken land away from those who cultivated it and helped to impoverish the most vulnerable women and children.

The birth of a second sonalso called Geoffreyraised the possibility that in accordance to French inheritance custom of the periodthe Anglo-Norman maternal inheritance would go to Henry and the Angevin paternal inheritance to Geoffrey.

The artist is also particularly interested in the cultural practice of storytelling and the inheritance of old customs, as well as the reproduction by natural processes of new myths in the modern world.

By the Pictish marriage custom, inheritance passed through the female.

Even when a cross-cousin is the preferential mate, actual instances of such marriages in a given society may be small, for such decisions are also influenced by local customs governing succession, inheritance, and residence.

The patriarch of the Basque family is the etcheko jaun; his primary task is to preserve the patrimony intact, and the custom of undivided inheritance has resulted in the emigration of disinherited sons and daughters.

Primogeniture and ultimogeniture, preference in inheritance that is given by law, custom, or usage to the eldest son and his issue (primogeniture) or to the youngest son (ultimogeniture, or junior right).

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Patriarchal family systems and property inheritance sustain son preference and dowry customs.

The southeastern provinces are coded as stem family systems because of the occurrence of impartible inheritance, or Anerbenrecht, and the specific customs with regard to co-residence in which young couples "married in" and became part of the parental household.