This partible inheritance often caused internal struggle which made centralized government problematic.

But a family whose lands lay in an area of customary law where partible inheritance was the rule faced considerable problems.

Southern Malabar saw a patrilineal system but partible property.

Gavelkind was the practice of partible or equal inheritance, as opposed to primogeniture.

This behaviour survives among certain existent hunter-forager groups that believe in partible paternity.

This is obvious if we consider societies which have systems of partible inheritance, where resources are divided equally between the surviving children on the parents' death.

In relation to the harsh physical environment holdings were small and (it was said) getting smaller, thanks to partible inheritance: few exceeded 20-25 acres.

In ancient Hawaii, partible paternity was called poʻolua.

Partible paternity, or shared paternity is where a child is understood to have more than one biological father.

Partible inheritance is a general term applied to systems of inheritance in which property may be apportioned among heirs.

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Partible inheritance has been common in clannish tribal societies, an example of this pattern is so-called Salic patrimony.

Partible inheritance was the generally accepted form of inheritance adopted by New Englanders in the 18th century.

The Frankish kings adhered to the practice of partible inheritance: dividing their lands among their sons.

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Henry II recognised that his vast holdings were unsustainable and planned for partible inheritance common in the feudal system.

With partible inheritance large estates are slowly divided among many descendants and great wealth is thus diluted, leaving higher opportunities to individuals to make a success.

That Raimon owned only a quarter of his family's ancestral castle is an indication either of partible inheritance or clan structure.

Ryan and Jethá use this as evidence for their theory that partible paternity and promiscuity were common for early modern humans.

There are other kinds of formulae for inheritance, if the heritage can be divided: heirs portioners and partible inheritance.

In land law, the Welsh practice of partible inheritance continued, but in accordance with English practice:

Living and working beside their owners they in practice may have become members of a household without the inconvenience of the partible inheritance rights that divided estates.

It asserted that German farms had previously been bestowed on one son, the strongest, ensuring the best were farmers, but partible inheritance had destroyed that.

This pattern, sort of partible inheritance but only between male heirs, was inherent in archaic societies, such as in Germanic tribes of early medieval period.

In Mexico, wills would become more common, even though partible inheritance remained the rule because of the great distance between family members on both sides of the Atlantic.