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<blockquote data-quote="Tantavalist" data-source="post: 8224612" data-attributes="member: 7030056">The unfortunate facts here are that... Succession Law was both a really big deal and incredibly complicated in RL history. This means that you can make up how it works as anything you want, and you could probably find some version of that from real history.Anyone who's played the Crusader Kings series of PC games can tell you how the succession and inheritance laws are for that. Have a look at the <a href="https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Laws#Succession_law" target="_blank">Succession Laws page for the Wiki</a> and then look at Wikipedia if you want some legal-sounding terms.As any RL lawyer would tell you- laws are a confusing and contradictory mess, and that's why we need to pay experts to tell us how they work. A law starts off simple and clear-cut, but then subsequent events cause it to be revised or expanded on. So- male heirs inherit always. But then a situation arises where a male heir that whoever makes the laws doesn't like will inherit something and an exception is added. And this goes on for generations.These clauses, as with any law, will often sound arbitrary and nonsensical outside of the context that led to them being made. But they're legally binding. It could also be the case that there is no clear answer. In this case they take the case before a Judge (who may be the King, or whoever is regent if the title is the Crown) and then argue it out. Let your laywer friend argue why it should go one way or the other In Character, because that's how things work out IRL if there's no clear precedent. Which there may not be. TLDR: The lack of any clear legal answer to the succession can and did happen in real history and wars have been fought because of such.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tantavalist, post: 8224612, member: 7030056"] The unfortunate facts here are that... Succession Law was both a really big deal and incredibly complicated in RL history. This means that you can make up how it works as anything you want, and you could probably find some version of that from real history. Anyone who's played the Crusader Kings series of PC games can tell you how the succession and inheritance laws are for that. Have a look at the [URL='https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Laws#Succession_law']Succession Laws page for the Wiki[/URL] and then look at Wikipedia if you want some legal-sounding terms. As any RL lawyer would tell you- laws are a confusing and contradictory mess, and that's why we need to pay experts to tell us how they work. A law starts off simple and clear-cut, but then subsequent events cause it to be revised or expanded on. So- male heirs inherit always. But then a situation arises where a male heir that whoever makes the laws doesn't like will inherit something and an exception is added. And this goes on for generations. These clauses, as with any law, will often sound arbitrary and nonsensical outside of the context that led to them being made. But they're legally binding. It could also be the case that there is no clear answer. In this case they take the case before a Judge (who may be the King, or whoever is regent if the title is the Crown) and then argue it out. Let your laywer friend argue why it should go one way or the other In Character, because that's how things work out IRL if there's no clear precedent. Which there may not be. TLDR: The lack of any clear legal answer to the succession can and did happen in real history and wars have been fought because of such. [/QUOTE]

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