Male Succession

[Drusilla]

Can anyone tell me the name of the law that has put males before females in the line of succession for the English crown? I think that should be British crown, but it's probably even more complicated than that. Help!!!!

[heatherglen]

male-preference primogeniture.

[Artemis]

As heatherglen quite rightly says primogeniture is correct. This also applies in normal Scottish Law.

[Drusilla]

Thank you all very much. I answered a question earlier where I knew this law was enforced, but I had no idea of it's correct name.

[jno]

IAP I think Britain still enforces the male primogeniture law, but Salic law is stricter. Spain and Japan are both planning to alter the law so firstborn daughters can inherit. Britain isn't, of course, being much more traditional and backward-looking than Japan!