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In many heraldic traditions, arms generally are passed patrilineally. In other nations' traditions, Canadian heraldry for example, women may inherit arms on an equal basis with their brothers (if any). Women in Canada may also transmit their arms to their heirs, regardless of sex. [4]
However, females are rarely heirs apparent to titles which follow male-preference primogeniture. A female can be heir apparent to such title if her father was the heir apparent who died leaving no sons. In such rare circumstances, that female would replace her father as heir apparent to whatever throne or title is concerned.
Often a hereditary title is inherited only by the legitimate, eldest son of the original grantee or that son's male heir according to masculine primogeniture. [1] In some countries and some families, titles descended to all children of the grantee equally, as well as to all of that grantee's remoter descendants, male and female.
Heir may also refer to: Heir apparent, the first in line to a throne or other title, who cannot be displaced by birth of another heir; Heir presumptive, the current first in line to a title; Heirs of the line, heirs in the line of succession; Heirs of the body, descendants of a particular person who are entitled to inherit a title or property
In some jurisdictions, an heir apparent can automatically lose that status by breaching certain constitutional rules. Today, for example: A British heir apparent would lose this status if he or she became a Catholic. This is the only religion-based restriction on the heir apparent. Previously, marrying a Catholic also equated to losing this status.
Noun-self pronouns are a type of neopronoun that involve a noun being used as a personal pronoun. [21] Examples of noun-self pronouns include "vamp/vampself", "kitten/kittenself", and "doll/dollself". [4]
Nouns seem to possess a well defined but covert system of grammatical gender. We may call a noun masculine, feminine or neuter depending on the pronouns which it selects in the singular. Mass or non-count nouns (such as frost, fog, water, love) are called neuter because they select the pronoun it. Count nouns divide into masculine and feminine.
The term epikleros (a feminine adjective acting as noun; from the proverb ὲπί, epí, "on, upon", and the noun κλῆρος, klēros, "lot, estate") was used in Ancient Greece to describe the daughter of a man who had died leaving no male heir.