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heirs of peers

November 22, 2024 by judeknight

Titles and inheritance

I saw it again, today. The idea that a duke can decide not to leave his title to his eldest legitimate son. Wrong! That isn’t true, even today.

He might be able to strip the title of any unentailed property and leave that to someone else. But the title and the entailed property do not belong to the duke (or other peer), but are held in trust for his descendants.

 

Posted in Footnotes on Friday | Tagged entails, heirs of peers, inheritance, peers, Titles | 2 Comments

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