Meanings
- UKhistoricaluncountablelawPatrilineal ultimogeniture; inheritance by the youngest surviving male child.
the great variety of customs affecting many of these tenements so held in ancient burgage, the principal and most remarkable of which is that called Borough English
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC1 more example
The distribution of Borough English or ultimogeniture in England was roughly as follows. The custom extenhded along the whole line of the "Saxon Shore" from the Wash to the neighbourhood of the Solent, including the whole of the south-eastern counties.
1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 434Synonyms: junior right
Synonyms & antonyms
nounPatrilineal ultimogeniture; inheritance by the youngest surviving male child.
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