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[edit]- (law, UK, obsolete) Patrilineal ultimogeniture; inheritance by the youngest surviving male child.
- Synonym: junior right
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- the great variety of customs affecting many of these tenements so held in ancient burgage, the principal and most remarkable of which is that called Borough English