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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8227117" data-attributes="member: 42582">I agree with what some others have said that the legal answer can be (i) somewhat arbitrary and (ii) potentially uncertain. Most modern legal systems have scenarios that can't be straightforwardly answered applying the existing legal resources; that will be moreso for pre-modern legal systems which have had less technical work done on them.[USER=6988941]@Benjamin Olson[/USER]'s post obviously gives a good sense of what some of the key considerations are:(1) Does the property follow the noble/royal title or is it passing under a separate regime? (2) Is the abdication/forfeiture to be treated as equivalent to a death, with the later-born son treated as a son born after a literal death? Or is it a the legal extinguishment of that person's line going forward, so that the later-born son doesn't count as having the correct inheritance? (3) If the later-born son is to be passed over in respect of either title or property, what happens next? Is there anyone identifiable with the right inheritance connection by tracing up the line? Does the abdicator act as a "block" to any tracing back up that line? Do the titles and/or property potentially revert to the authority that first granted them? Is the title instead extinguished and the property now (at law) vacant and unowned?You don't even need to decide these things. In the fiction they might be the subject of learned speculation among the leading lawyers of the realm, but the answers may be unsettled or not widely known. (Maybe an ancient digest discussed these matters, but the only remaining copy is with Keraptis in White Plume Mountain!)As long as some of the basic concepts and considerations are laid out clearly enough, I would have thought your RL life lawyer player can run the relevant arguments and (unless there's some countervailing reason you haven't shown us yet) win the day.</blockquote>

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