eldest son's son's son) inherits the title before siblings and similar, this being termed 'by right of substitution' for the deceased heir secondly where children were only daughters they would enjoy the fettered use (life use) of an equal amount of the underlying real asset and the substantive free use (such as one-half inheritance) would accrue to their most senior-line male descendant or contingent on her marriage ( moieties) thirdly, where the late estate holder had no descendants his oldest brother would succeed, and his descendants would likewise enjoy the rule of substitution where he had died. Most monarchies in Western Europe have eliminated this, in succession: Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom.Įnglish primogeniture endures mainly in titles of nobility: any first-placed direct male-line descendant (e.g. Variations have tempered the traditional, sole-beneficiary, right (such as French appanage) or, in the West since World War II, eliminate the preference for males over females (absolute male-preference primogeniture). male-preference primogeniture, Salic primogeniture, semi-Salic primogeniture). In the absence of male-line offspring, variations were expounded to entitle a daughter or a brother or, in the absence of either, to another collateral relative, in a specified order (e.g. The common definition given is also known as male-line primogeniture, the classical form popular in European jurisdictions among others until into the 20th century. 6.3 Reemergence in medieval and modern times.5.1.1 British and French titles of nobility.2 Order of succession in monarchies today.

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