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the Signory, for that commonly he is a man of stronger year(s) andbetter experience to maintain the inheritance and to defend the country...And to this end the Tanaist is always ready known, if it should happen tothe Captain suddenly to die, or to be slain in battle, or to be out o f thecountry, to defend and keep it from all such dangers.” (Spenser: “ View ofthe State of Ireland” , bei Maine, p. 201, 202) [Maine, der gar nicht erwähnt(cp. oben Haverty) was d. Irisch writers gesagt, giebt als seine Entdekkung:]“ Primogeniture, considered as a rule of succession to property,appears to me a product of tribal leadership in its decay. (20(2)) Glanville(unter Henry II, whslich n 8 6 ) hZ writes mit Bezug auf English militarytenures: “ When anyone dies, leaving a younger son and a grandson, thechild of his eldest son, a great doubt exists as to which of the two the lawprefers in the succession to the other, whether the son or the grandson.Some think the younger son has more right to the inheritance than thegrandson but others incline to think that the grandson might523 bepreferred to his uncle.” (Glanville, V II. 7) Ebenso disputes amongHighland families about the tide to the chieftaincy o f particular clans.(I.e. 203) Maine versteht d. ganzen case nicht; meint d. Onkel z.B. gewählt,weil mehr wehrhaft; daggen sobald times had become friedlicherunter central authority of a king “ the value of strategical capacity in thehumbler chiefs would diminish, and in the smaller brotherhoods the respectfor purity of blood would have unchecked play” . (203) [Dies reiner Blödsinn.D. Sach’ ist allmälig Ueberwigen (zusammenhängend mit Entwicklg v.Privatgdeigenthum) der Ein^elfamilie über d. Gens. Des Vaters Brudernäher dem ihnen beiden gemeinscftlichen Stammhaupt, als irgendeinerder Söhne des Vaters; also der Onkel der Söhne näher als einer vondiesen selbst. Nachdem schon mit Bezug auf d. Familie d. Kinder d.Vaters theilen, u. d. gens nur noch wenig od. gar nicht an d. Erbscftbetheiligt, kann für öffentliche FunktionenS2b, also gens chief, tribe chief,etc noch d. alte gens rule vorwiegend bleiben; nothwendig entsteht aber strugglezwischen beiden.] Dieselbe Streitfrage arose zwischen d. descendantsof daughters in d. controversy zwischen Bruce u. Baliol über Krone vonSchottland. (204) (Edward I liess für Baliol entscheiden, danach d. descendantsof an elder child must be exhausted before those of the youngerhad a title.) Sobald d. älteste Sohn statt d. Onkel folgte to “ the humblerchieftaincies” he doubtless also obtained that “ portion of land attachedto the Signory which went without partition to the Tanaist.” 53 (204)So “ the demesne” , as it was afterwards called, assumed more and more thecharacter of mere property descending according to the rule of primo-179 geniture” . (p. 204) | Nach u. nach dann this principle o f primogenitureextended from the demesne to all the estates o f the holder of the Signory,however acquired, and ultimately determined the law of succession forthe privileged classes throughout feudalised Europe. (204, 5) French“ Parage” under which the near kinsmen o f the eldest son still took an311