Minorat

Minorat (Latin minor ' less, less " ) or novitiate (Latin for" younger " ) refers to a succession, after which the inheritance is regulated via the youngest child and only the nearest male relative or - with the same degree of relationship - the youngest of the inheritance is justified. If there is no male heir, the youngest daughter has the merit or the eldest daughter in areas that were managed by the church. The Minorat comes from the old courtyards law. In contrast, the right of primogeniture, in which alone the eldest takes up the legacy.

A Erbregelung, in which the / the last born inherits everything is referred to as Ultimogenitur.

A Minorat found, for example, in the Canton of Bern ( Switzerland ), but also in Saxony, where each of the youngest son took over the family farm.

Ownership arrangements for the county Ravens Mountain from November 8, 1669 confirmed the Anerbenrecht as longstanding youngest law. If a son can not inherit, the youngest daughter takes the place; Children first marriage go against those of other marriages in succession.

In the high- pin -Augsburg Amtmann Pfronten received before 1800 first always the youngest son of the yard. If there was no male heir, the eldest daughter had the advantage. This scheme is testified in 1840, " according to ancient custom of the country " for the former Montfort County Rothfels ( Immenstadt ).

1864, the establishment of a Fideikommiss ' English style as Minorat by the Prussian Government was approved in present-day Mecklenburg -Vorpommern in the community Kartlow. Thus the title of "Count of Cartlow " 1870 was connected, the state only the Fideikommissherrn.

In the 1930s, the then standard Anerbenrecht was abandoned in many cases with Minorat in Łódź Germans in Poland and went to a Realerbteilung.