I do not want to insist on primogeniture.
Bailleul, therefore, proposed an alternative to the reintroduction of primogeniture.
Primogeniture was the general rule.
Primogeniture and entail encouraged the concentration of large property in the hands of the same families, contrary to the spirit of the century that wanted to divide everything.
When transferring the family assets from the present generation to the next, the eldest son or the eldest daughter's husband would become the successor by the rule of primogeniture.
Gavelkind refers to a system of partible inheritance (as opposed to primogeniture) emanating from the clan rather than the family.
Therefore, the principle of primogeniture is somewhat less dominant than the proportion of more than half of all successions involving the eldest son might seem to suggest.
Although the succession passed in principle to the king's eldest son, this rule of primogeniture was qualified in two ways.
