Heir and spare
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Heir and spare
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Heir and spare, or the heir and the spare, is a term referring to first-born and second-born children, usually male, in patrilineal inheritance systems. The first-born is heir apparent or heir presumptive. The second-born is redundancy should there ever be a catastrophic incident involving the first-born. The brutal clarity of this winner-takes-all system contrasts with other, more ambiguous systems where heirs are never told what, how much, or if they will inherit at all. Historically, it was t
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Royalty problems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heir_and_spare
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2023-12-08T23:02:45Z
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