absolute primogeniture
English
Noun
absolute primogeniture (countable and uncountable, plural absolute primogenitures)
- A form of primogeniture in which sex is irrelevant for inheritance; the oldest surviving child without regard to sex becomes the heir.
- Synonyms: equal primogeniture, lineal primogeniture
- 2008, Jennifer Robertson, editor, A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 362:
- Another well-known custom, common in the northeast, is absolute primogeniture, whereby the eldest child, regardless of sex, becomes the heir.