In addition, posthumously appointed male heirs were allowed only partial inheritance rights, even when the deceased couple had no surviving daughters.
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All the heirs, whether male or female, were treated equally.
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On the one hand, they could bring wealthy dowries ; they also were the progenitors of the heirs who would continue the house.
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In contrast, if trees are planted, individual tenure security is enhanced and rights to transfer land to desired heirs are strengthened.
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In the remaining eighteen cases the property was divided among the surviving heirs.
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Male heirs of these houses contracted marriages with pubilles in 12.2 per cent of the generations.
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However, the remaining heirs include two women and three sons-in-law, or the adopted spouses of heiresses.
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Nevertheless, male heirs overall were more often to have no evidence of marriage.
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The direct bloodline was most often a patriline, but could follow the matriline if male heirs were adopted from outside.
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Male heirs who inherited when the former head retired, however, were most often married with a spouse present in the household.
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However, daughters provided a way for families to recruit capable heirs from outside the family while still maintaining the bloodline connection.
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Moreover, adoption of heirs from outside the family was also relatively common among the non-elite classes.
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Even if the tactic was not, strictly speaking, traditional, the only constituency harmed was female heirs, and they were not politically influential.
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Prospective heirs may not be interested if taking on additional firms would thin their supervision and raise the risk of failure to their own firms.
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Admittedly, it is often difficult to find the authors or their heirs.
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Collocationswithheir
heir
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direct heir
If that were so, and you could find thedirectheirwho ought to receive the property, it might be a case for investigation.
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legitimate heir
Out of these sunless, gloomy epochs the first ancestor emerged to found the divine dynasty that eventually produced this young man, the onlylegitimateheirto the throne.
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male heir
And so, against her wishes, she agrees to name amaleheirto her husband's estate that his lineage forces on her.
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