On this date in 1777 Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture.
I wasn’t sure what entail meant other than what I already thought it meant, like I did not exactly what the word entail entailed. Yuk yuk – get it?
I googled the words entail and primogeniture and found it more or less was the old English law that the first-born male was entitled to receive all of the inheritance.
Georgia lawmakers were modern trend makers back in 1777 when they abolished the entail & primogeniture system….. yep, they were groundbreakers…. Then, at the end of the day they went home to their plantations and whipped their slaves.
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Also had to look up entail, also called fee tail. Primogeniture had heard of before. Entrails, also.
My children are welcome to try anything to get what I leave behind. Lots of luck, kids. They can have entrails. We have a standing joke that whenever they make fun of something stupid I do, I tell them I am taking them out of the will. Gets a lot of laughs.
My kids will be lucky to get anything! LOL
Si and Judy,
I think after our will is read my sons will be singing "We got plenty of nothing!"
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