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Agnatic-cognatic (or semi-Salic) succession, prevalent in much of Europe since ancient times, is the restriction of succession to those descended from or related to a past or current monarch exclusively through the male line of descent: descendants through females were ineligible to inherit unless no males of the patrilineage remained alive.
This was also the law of Russia under the Pauline Laws of 1797 and of Luxembourg [citation needed] until absolute primogeniture was introduced on 20 June 2011. There are various versions of semi-Salic law also, although in all forms women do not succeed by application of the same kind of primogeniture as was in effect among males in the family.
The Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (also known as the Pamphlet Laws or just Laws of Pennsylvania, as well as the Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) is the compilation of session laws passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. [1]
The Semi-Salic version of succession order stipulates that firstly all-male descendance is applied, including all collateral male lines, but if all such lines are extinct, then the closest female agnate (such as a daughter) of the last male holder of the property inherits, and after her, her own male heirs according to the Salic order. In other ...
The word is a compound of *all "whole, full" and *ōd "estate, property" (cf. Old Saxon ōd, Old English ead, Old Norse auðr). [4] Allodial tenure seems to have been common throughout northern Europe, [ 2 ] but is now unknown in common law jurisdictions apart from Scotland and the Isle of Man .
Caleb Nelson, Emerson G. Spies Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law; Charles Phelps Taft II, Mayor of Cincinnati (1955–1957) Charles R. Saxbe, former member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1975-1982) and 1982 Republican candidate for Ohio Attorney General; Robert A. Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio ...
Superior Court of Pennsylvania; Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania, United States except those cases which involve decisions of governmental agencies; public sector legal questions; actions to which the Commonwealth is a party other than criminal cases; or actions to which a not-for-profit, private corporation is a party, all of which are appealed instead to the Commonwealth Court.
Concerning the inheritance of land, Salic law said: "But of Salic land no portion of the inheritance shall come to a woman: but the whole inheritance of the land shall come to the male sex", [38] or, in another transcript: "concerning terra Salica no portion or inheritance is for a woman but all the land belongs to members of the male sex who ...