secundogeniture

English

Etymology

From New Latin secundōgenitūra.

Noun

secundogeniture (plural secundogenitures)

1. The condition of being secondborn
2. A right of inheritance belonging to a second son.
3. A property or possession so inherited.
   • 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:

     The kingdom of Naples […] was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain.