SUCCESSION

—The power or right to an estate inherited from ancestors. | Male i ue is admitted before the female. | Where two or more of the male i ue are} in equal degree of consanguinity to| we are ae EN aha the eldest | only shall inherit, but the females all] together. A kinsman of half blood is] capable of being heir, and such kinsman | shall inherit next after a kinsman in| pe same se of whole blood, and after | on ee ee Se oe ene joe Be ektor is y feat Gina) tora failure é e heir Of | the person last entitled to the land, as | if he had been its purchaser. Succe ion } to the crown of England is governed by | similar laws of inheritance. But n0|}eaq Salic Law prevents female succe ion | on the failure of male i ue. Profe ion of the R.C. faith or marriage with a Rom. Catholic exclude from succe ion to the throne