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A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest male heir.

• Survivance
  Alt. of Survivancy
• RIGHTABOUT
  A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. To send to the right-about, to cause to turn toward the opposite point or quarter; -- hence, of troops,
• Certainness
  Certainty.
• Descendent
  Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.
• Entailed
  of Entail
• Homestead
  The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
• Right-hand
  Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.
• Survivancy
  Survivorship.
• RIGHTANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• Certainties
  of Certainty
• Descender
  One who descends.
• Entailing
  of Entail
• Homesteader
  One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner.
• Right-handed
  Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
• Survived
  of Survive
• RIGHTHANDED
  Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances away fro
• Adjacent
  Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.
• Certainty
  The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
• Descendibility
  The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
• Entailment
  The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

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