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Ultimogeniture is an order of succession where the subject is succeeded by the youngest son (or youngest child). This serves the circumstances where the youngest is "keeping the hearth", taking care of the parents and continuing at home, whereas elder children have had time to succeed "out in the world" and provide for themselves.
This is a list of current monarchies by order of succession (hereditary [a] and elective). Current monarchies. Monarchy Title Mode of succession
The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States and other officers of the United States federal government assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency (or the office itself, in the instance of succession by the vice president) upon an elected president's death, resignation, removal from office, or incapacity.
Primogeniture (/ ˌ p r aɪ m ə ˈ dʒ ɛ n ɪ tʃ ər,-oʊ-/) is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative.
This also means that King Charles’ youngest brother, Prince Edward, 60, will move from 14th to 15th place in the line of succession. Edward’s children, James, Earl of Wessex, 17, and The Lady ...
Succession to the crown is dictated, first and foremost, by birth order on the royal family tree—although that wasn't always the case. The post The British Royal Family Tree and Complete Line of ...
After an amendment made to the Succession to the Crown Act in 2013 (which means eldest children, regardless of sex, will succeed the throne first), Princess Charlotte is third in line to the ...
A fideicommissum's succession can also be ordered in a way that determines it long (or eternally) also with regard to persons born long after the original descendant. Royal succession has typically been more or less a fideicommissum, the realm not (easily) to be sold and the rules of succession not to be (easily) altered by a holder (a monarch).