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Partigeniture

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Partigeniture rate
(Noun) The system of inheritance by which the legitimate offspring received equal shares of the wealth and property of the parents; as opposed to primogeniture where the eldest heir inherited all.
Usage: Norman land tenure in East Kent, unlike the rest of Egland, was based on partigeniture.


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