On Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 20:33:50 UTC,
[email protected] wrote:
On 12-Jan-23 5:02 AM, taf wrote:
On a slightly more relevant note, since we are talking inheritance law, is there a technical term for the manner of general inheritance practiced in medieval England?
English inheritance can be confusing because it operated differently on different levels. For the monarchy, it operated differently at different times, eventually settling on male-preference primogeniture (except when it wasn't), until a few years
ago when it changed to strict primogeniture. For most of the highest titles, it was male-exclusive primogeniture. For most of the lesser titles of nobility, a modified male-preference primogeniture applied, in which cognatic inheritance required a unique
female inheritor/cognatic line, else abeyance among the multiple daughters/lines resulted, and for landholdings and other such possessions and rights, it was a similarly modified male-preference primogeniture, but with equal partition among the cognates.
So the question I have is, what is the technical term for this system of 'modified male-preference primogeniture with cognatic partition' inheritance? (I am sure there must be one, and likely more than one, since categorizing and naming is a tried and
true way for social scientists to maintain their publication records without doing any actual research.)
The preferred terms often use Salic inheritance as the reference, adding prefixes for variants - semi-Salic, quasi-Salic. The technical term you
are looking for may be mad-hatter-Salic.
Peter Stewart
--
This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com
It is wonderful to see some names I recognise on this list! I left shortly after Leo van de Pas left this earth.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)