Sentence examples for the first born son from inspiring English sources

"Growing up the first born son in a South Asian family, I got used to being quite the little prince," he wrote.

The right of the first born son to inherit his father's property has been a bulwark of Sark life for centuries since the seigneur, the island's hereditary ruler, was granted the island in perpetuity by Queen Elizabeth I in 1565.

As per the legend, the seventh born son or daughter of an Argentinian family would be born accursed, doomed to turn into a deformed mythical werewolf-like creature that'll reveal itself on the child's 13th birthday.

The term is too narrow, however, because the sole heir need not necessarily be the first-born son (primogenitus).

And now the first-born son, George, 44, has written the darkest tale of all, "The Blue Bowl" (Alfred A. Knopf), published in March.

Peter's decree of 1722 abolished the practice of succession of the first-born son and gave the ruler power to designate the heir.

The Harris bill would also amend the primogeniture rules, which state that the first-born son of the monarch takes precedence in the succession over older sisters.

"Even that very old tradition of automatically handing down the family enterprise to the first-born son is waning," he said.

IN earlier times it was said of Britain's landed gentry that the first-born son took the title, the second went into the military and the third joined the church.

Within a few months he issued a new law of coronation and defined the constitutional position of the king in the state: Bohemia became a hereditary monarchy in which the law of succession of the first-born son and his descendants was to be valid and binding; in case of the extinction of the male lineage, the law of succession devolved upon the daughters.

Adam, the first-born son of Ben Cartwright Lorne Greenee), a three-time widower who had had a son with each of his wives, was the book-smart one; Hoss (Dan Blocker) was the comic bruiser; Little Joe Michael Landonn) was the adorable but impetuous youngster with a lot to learn.