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Agnatic primogeniture or patrilineal primogeniture is inheritance according to seniority of birth among the sons of a monarch or head of family, with sons inheriting before brothers, and male-line male descendants inheriting before collateral male relatives in the male line, and to the total exclusion of females and descendants through females ...
An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery (2 Anne c. 6 (I); commonly known as the Popery Act or the Gavelkind Act) [2] was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland that was passed in 1704 designed to suppress Roman Catholicism in Ireland ("Popery"). William Edward Hartpole Lecky called it the most notorious of the Irish Penal Laws. [3]
In Ireland, gavelkind was a species of tribal succession by which the land, instead of being divided at the death of the holder amongst his sons, was thrown again into the common stock and redivided among the surviving members of the sept. [9] [19] Under Traditional Irish law, land was divided at the death of the holder among his sons.
In 1703, in the reign of Queen Anne, a law was enacted (2 Anne c. 6 (I)) by the Irish parliament, which is commonly known as the Gavelkind Act. [2] The law made sectarian affiliation a primary determinant of the inheritance of land.
Patrilineal primogeniture with regards to both livestock and land was practiced by the Tswana people, whose main source of wealth was livestock, although they also practiced agriculture. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] This practice was also seen in other southern Bantu peoples, [ 16 ] such as the Tsonga , [ 17 ] or the Venda . [ 18 ]
From the 1870s the practice arose of passing a holding to one child only, which with the benefits of the Irish Land Acts, meant that the survivors prospered. [ 2 ] A secondary effect of the prohibition of sub-division was that other children, who would previously have inherited part of the family farm tenancy or married into a similar small ...
As a republic, the Constitution of Ireland prohibits the conferral of "titles of nobility" by the Republic of Ireland, or their acceptance without permission of the Government; [1] further, Irish chieftainships did not descend by primogeniture but by election from within kinship pools. [2]
Today there are Doherty families in many parts of Ireland, with primary concentration in their homeland of the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal and the vicinity of Derry. The O’Dohertys are an important part of the Irish diaspora. To this end, the family continues through voluntary organisations, exploring family and Irish history and ...