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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"primogeniture"”.
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Statutory laws of intestate succession in south-east Nigeria: addressing the gaps of legal pluralism
… of awareness and the customary practice of male primogeniture hinder the inheritance rights of women and children. It argues that in the South-East, women and children are disadvantaged by both state and customary intestate laws because these laws do not guarantee their full right to intestate …
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Statutory laws of intestate succession in south-east nigeria: addressing the gaps of legal pluralism
… of awareness and the customary practice of male primogeniture hinder the inheritance rights of women and children. It argues that in the South-East, women and children are disadvantaged by both state and customary intestate laws because these laws do not guarantee their full right to intestate …
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Conditional Love: Imitation, Inheritance and Violent Relations in Early Modern Revenge Tragedies
… political ideologies. The foundational topos of primogeniture: that the father can live on in the son) requires the son to resemble the father, which creates relationships founded on reproduction through imitation. These imitative relationships are then vulnerable to disruption should a son fail …
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The legal Implications of colonialism on patrilineal succession to traditional leadership in South Africa
… This scholarship holds that the rule of male primogeniture is discriminatory towards women and needs to evolve to reflect contemporary values of equality and dignity as provided by the Constitution. While deploying a doctrinal approach, this mini dissertation thus examines this tension and how …
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Traditional leaders in South Africa: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
… was hereditary according to the principle of primogeniture in the male line. There was a duty to consult councillors and to act for the benefit of the people. Even though many of the issues of traditional leadership were similar across the country, it must be accepted that traditional …
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Elite Identities in Scottish Family Group Portraits, 1740 - 1790
… in attitude to the importance of lineage and primogeniture will be questioned. A close reading of these portraits shows that old concerns of propriety, gendered roles and dynastic concerns remain central to the conversation piece. In the second section (chapters 4–6), the focus will move from …
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Succession in woman-to-women marriages under customary law: a study of the Lobedu Kingdom
… of governance. It finds that the rule of male primogeniture is still applicable, and that women do not have a right to inherit from their deceased parents except at the discretion of the male heir. It finds that the acceptance of children in woman-to-woman marriages includes the performance of …
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Marriage, Inheritance, and the Balance of Power in Twelfth-Century England and France
… basis of consanguinity, and the prevalence of primogeniture in the handing down of estates are all discussed at length. A central theme is the contested and provisional nature of all these issues during the period, with rules that were either unclear or not universally accepted creating …
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Analysis of the Nigerian Supreme Court's constitutional duty regarding women's inheritance right under customary law
… then invalidated this customary law of male primogeniture for being repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience. Although the decision of the court solved the problem of discrimination, it failed to develop customary law by invalidating only the discriminatory aspect of the …
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The administration of customary law estates post the enactment of the reform of customary law of succession act: a case study from rural Eastern Cape, South Africa
… The notorious customary law principle of male primogeniture, according to which males inherited to the exclusion of females, has been abolished and replaced with the common law system of intestate succession. It has been nine years since the enactment of the Reform Act. This thesis investigates …
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Place and displacement: the unsettling connection of women, property, and the law in British novels of the long nineteenth century
… practices that preference themale line such as primogeniture, including the 1753 Marriage Act, the practice of Parliamentary Enclosure, the Inheritance Act of 1833, the several Asylum and Madhouse Acts enacted in this period, and the Reform Act of 1832, among other laws whose influence on the …