长子继承制和幼子继承制
Primogeniture probably implies, as a choice over ultimogeniture, the importance of hierarchical considerations by maintaining respect for the most advanced in age. If, on the other hand, ultimogeniture is the method of maintaining the integrity of the inheritance, the elder brothers may be compensated with privileges of authority, travel, and some form of pecuniary or material advantage; and it may be reasoned that the youngest son, having stayed the longest in the house of his father, having more years to live, and being the least likely to have established himself in the world, should be the one to whom the property falls.
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