Sentence examples for system of inheritance from inspiring English sources

Closely related to that form of government was the Elamite system of inheritance and power distribution.

King Abdel Aziz established the system of inheritance according to age and family consensus in the hope of avoiding fratricide.

Why and how primogeniture became the common-law system of inheritance of freehold real estate is not clear.

"Inherit the Wind; There's Little Else Left" (Week in Review, March 26) emphasizes the stunning inequality of the American system of inheritance.

The bureaucracy, too, was carefully reorganized, but the seeds of the sovereignty's weakness lay in the royal house itself, which lacked an established system of inheritance by primogeniture.

Oglethorpe and his partners limited the size of individual landholdings to 500 acres (about 200 hectares), prohibited slavery, forbade the drinking of rum, and instituted a system of inheritance that further restricted the accumulation of large estates.

The last two are the ways in which the modern systems of inheritance work: the estate is reallotted according to the rules of intestacy law or according to the will of the decedent.

However, the co-existence of multiple systems of inheritance and its evolutionary significance is downplayed by such an account.

First, between proponents of monism about heredity (gene-centric views), holism about heredity (Developmental Systems Theory), and those stressing the role of multiple systems of inheritance.

Various suggestions have been made about the evolutionary history underlying the multiple systems of inheritance that have been identified and about their role in the evolution of life.

Contemporary views on evolution that stress the role of multiple systems of inheritance have been greatly influenced by the work Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb, in particular their arguments about the evolutionary role of epigenetic inheritance (Jablonka 2001, 2002; Jablonka & Lamb 1995, 2005, 2006).