In Scotland, the eldest sister is preferred over younger sisters ; sisters are not considered equal co-heirs.

Under English inheritance law all daughters are co-heirs, so many older English peerage titles have fallen into abeyance between various female co-heirs.

The co-heirs are the descendants of the 20th Baroness:

The co-heirs presumptive are Sebastian St Maur Miller ( b. 1965 ) and Sir John Aird, 4th Baronet ( b. 1940 ).

The co-heirs are the descendants of the 23rd baroness:

( A Deputy Lord Great Chamberlain is a person exercising the office who is not personally a co-heir to the office ; historically these have been sons or husbands of co-heirs as the office has never been exercised by a woman, as women were barred from sitting in the Lords until the present reign ).

His daughters Agnes ( born 1298 ) and Katherine ( born 1300 ) were his co-heirs in his landed estates and manors.

In 1677, Sarah's brother Ralph died, and she and her sister, Frances, became co-heirs of the Jennings estates in Hertfordshire and Kent.

One of two daughters and co-heirs of William Apsley, of Limerick, Ireland, one of the council to the first President of the province of Munster.

With financial affairs in a state of calamity, Vitellius took the initiative of killing citizens who named him as their heir, often together with any co-heirs.

The rights of the two co-heirs at law were extinguished ; Viscount Berkeley had financial difficulties and King Edward IV paid off those debts.

Until his death, the 14th Earl was one of the seven co-heirs to the Barony of Grey de Ruthyn.

The more famous of the two, the gold Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, was sold in 2006 by Altmann and her co-heirs to philanthropist Ronald Lauder for $ 135 million.

By this, each daughter had a quarter share of the barony, which she transmitted to her heir ; none of them holds the barony unless the Crown decides which of the four co-heirs is to have it ; in this case it was not decided until 1916.

The House of Lords decision meant that there were three co-heirs to the barony.

She was the daughter of Sir Charles Watson Copley, 3rd Baronet, and one of the co-heirs of Maud, daughter of the first Baron Cromwell.

He is also one of the co-heirs to the Barony of Butler.

In 1724 he had married Margaret, who in 1751 became one of the co-heirs to the ancient Barony of Clinton, which fell into abeyance the latter year.

He was the third son of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, and the husband of Lady Barbara Ashley-Cooper, one of the co-heirs to the ancient barony by writ of Mauley ( or Maulay ), which superseded the feudal barony the caput of which was at Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire, which barony by writ had become extinct in 1415.

They were also co-heirs to his brother, Theobald.

Incidentally, the House of Lords made a standing order in 1954 directing that the Committee may deny a claim if the co-heirs have entered into an " improper arrangement.

" This rule prevents co-heirs of multiple baronies by writ from agreeing not to contest each other's claims, thereby dividing the baronies by writ amongst themselves.

On his death they became abeyant again, with his two daughters as co-heirs.

On 19 July 1569, when Albert Frederick rendered King Sigismund II homage and was in return enfeoffed as Duke of Prussia in Lublin, the King simultaneously enfeoffed Joachim II and his descendants as co-heirs.

The children of her union with Sussex were two sons, who died in infancy ; and two daughters, who lived to adulthood, co-heirs of the Barony Dacre:

Upon her death, the manor passed to her daughter Joanna Borlase, who in her turn passed it on to her daughters and co-heirs

It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.

There are certainly large areas of understanding in the human sciences which in themselves and even without political invention can help to dispel our present fears.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

Corporations are apt by nature to be impersonal, inhumane, shortsighted and almost exclusively profit-motivated, a picture they could scarcely afford to present to the public.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

and the laughter and the happiness are even more pronounced when no company is present.

These discoveries are of present interest chiefly to the scientific community ; ;

Second, our military missile program, going forward so successfully, does not suffer from our present lack of very large rocket engines, which are necessary in distant space exploration.

He reviews Steele's entrance into politics and finds that his present difficulties are due to his habit of attributing to his own abilities and talents achievements which more properly should be credited to the indulgence of his friends.

The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

They are as decisively present in the Oresteia and Oedipus as in Macbeth, King Lear, and Phedre.

This help is offered to applicants who ordinarily would not undertake the exploration under present conditions or circumstances at their sole expense and who are unable to obtain funds from commercial sources on reasonable terms.

These opinions of the assessors are of significance in indicating what their thinking seems to be at the present time.

Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.

The movement of events is so fast, the pace so severe, that an attempt to peer into the future is essential if we are to think accurately about the present.

Mr. Devey's new responsibilities are in addition to those of his present post as marketing manager of Sprague's Special Products Group, which manufactures a wide line of digital electronic components, packaged component assemblies, and high temperature magnet wires.

It is thick, much like an egg plant's skin, so that poison sprays, if they are used, present no hazard to the consumer.

Calcium, phosphorus and iron are present in worthwhile amounts, and eleven other minerals also have been found in varying trace amounts.

`` The reason you are in the ring today is to show your ability to present to any judge the most attractive picture of your dog that the skillful use of your aids can produce.