Primogeniture
Pri`mo`gen´i`ture
PRIMOGENITURE. The state of being first born the eldest.
2. Formerly primogeniture gave a title in cases of descent to the
oldest son in preference to the other children; this unjust distinction has
been generally abolished in the United States.
aboriginality,
age,
ancien regime,
ancientness,
antiquity,
atavism,
bequeathal,
bequest,
birthright,
borough-English,
cobwebs of antiquity,
coheirship,
coparcenary,
deanship,
dust of ages,
eld,
elderliness,
eldership,
entail,
gavelkind,
great age,
heirloom,
heirship,
hereditament,
heritable,
heritage,
heritance,
hoary age,
hoary eld,
incorporeal hereditament,
inheritance,
inveteracy,
law of succession,
legacy,
line of succession,
mode of succession,
old age,
old order,
old style,
oldness,
patrimony,
postremogeniture,
primitiveness,
primordialism,
primordiality,
reversion,
senility,
seniority,
succession,
ultimogeniture,
venerableness