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Levirate

noun
1.
The biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line.





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... The so-called levirate, or right of succession to the widow, is clearly of much importance, so far as questions of dominion are concerned; but as regards the problems of descent the evidence is less easily interpreted. It has sometimes been ...
— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas


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