POSTREMOGENITURE


Meaning of POSTREMOGENITURE in English

/po stree'moh jen"i cheuhr, -choor'/ , n. Law.

a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture . Cf. primogeniture (def. 2).

[ postrem ( us ) last (superl. of posterus coming after) + -O- + GENITURE ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .