• (n.) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.
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the English form of ultimogeniture, the system of undivided inheritance by which real property passed intact to the youngest son or, failing sons, to ...
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Bor'ough-Eng'lish noun (Eng. Law) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.
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succession by the youngest (son)
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n] - a former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
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noun a former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
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(formerly, in some parts of England) a custom by which the youngest son inherited the entire estate upon the death of his father.
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