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unusual facts about Partible inheritance


Glossary of the Weimar Republic

Partible inheritance — inheritances such as farms can be broken up amongst heirs; the culture of Catholic Bavaria



see also

Ultimogeniture

Official surveys conducted during the early years of the Meiji era demonstrated that the most common family form throughout the country during the Edo period was characterized by stem structure, patrilineal descent, patrivirilocal residence and patrilineal primogeniture, but in some southwestern areas this combination of partible inheritance and ultimogeniture was sometimes employed.