male heir
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmaleandheir
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male
adjective
uk/meɪl/us/meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that fertilizes eggs, and does not produce babies or ...
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heir
noun
uk/eər/us/er/
a person who will legally receive money, property, or a title from another person, especially an older member of the same family, when that other ...
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(Definition ofmaleandheirfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmale heir
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And so, against her wishes, she agrees to name amaleheirto her husband's estate that his lineage forces on her.
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Even though primogeniture concentrated the ie property in the hands of themaleheir, female inheritance continued well into the sixteenth century.
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The position of a female consort was never stable until she had produced amaleheirto the throne.
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We should remember that because the land was split between daughters, the daughters who did inherit were likely to receive less than amaleheir.
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He had nomaleheir, but had two daughters, so the solution was obviously to select a suitable sonin-law.
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An ie without amaleheirwas a great problem for all in authority, from the village to the state itself.
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Therefore, if the obviousmaleheirwas without offspring, the inheritance would pass to the first-born daughter who had married an heir.
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The other common cause was the ' apparent ' sterility of the wife, that is her ' failure ' to give birth to amaleheir.
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In the fourteen other cases of partible inheritance, the families concerned had already accumulated sufficient properties or land to ensure the legacies provided an economic livelihood for eachmaleheir.
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Nonetheless, it not being possible to programme biological reproduction with precision, problems of fertility or a high mortality rate often resulted in the lack of amaleheir.
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This only happened when there was no alternativemaleheir, or when alternative male heirs had remained single, had taken holy orders or had entered a monastery.
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However, if there were no males in a household then the oldest daughter was generally designated as the heir, with exactly the same prerogatives as amaleheir.
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Amaleheirautomatically assumed responsibility for all the tasks deriving from the administration of the family patrimony that would ensure the social and economic continuity of the family.
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Antoni had a long life : he died at the age of 70, and all his life he struggled to produce amaleheirto continue the family and the house.
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Is this not a precedent which could be followed for future creations where there is nomaleheir?
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This has been mainly due to the fact that themaleheirhas always succeeded to the tenancy.
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