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Of or relating to adoption.
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(law, UK, obsolete) patrilineal ultimogeniture; inheritance by the youngest surviving male child
adj
Of or relating to comradeship; between or among comrades.
adj
(law, obsolete) eldest; firstborn
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(law) The act of forisfamiliating.
adj
(law, historical) Relating to, or held under, the Spanish system of law that controls the title and disposition of the property acquired during marriage by the husband or wife.
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Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
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Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
adj
Relating to hereditary rights.
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An equal division of property among the sons.
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(rare) State of being a nation.
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Obsolete spelling of orison [A prayer.]
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(rare) The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born.
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the principle of royal succession in which the first son born after his father's accession to the throne has the first claim, even if he has older brothers who were born before the father's crowning.
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The fact of being born after someone else of the same bloodline.
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Inheritance by the last-born child of the entirety of, or of a privileged position in, a parent’s wealth, estate, or office; ultimogeniture.
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The state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents.
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The right of the first-born child (especially a son) to inherit property or titles; primogeniture.
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The condition of being secondborn
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(philosophy, theology) A unity of people in loving fellowship.
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a boy born into a wealthy or powerful family, to be raised without the hardships experienced by the poor or the working class
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A race or series of descendants.
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(uncountable) Act of passing on to one's future generations.
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Relating to ultimogeniture.
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A system of inheritance in which the youngest son or youngest child inherits an estate.
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(theology) The state of being the sole begotten.
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(rare) Alternative form of unigeniture [(theology) The state of being the sole begotten.]
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