Another known custom was for the youngest son to divide the land into equal parts and for his brothers to choose their parcels.
If a land-holder had no sons, his widow and unwed daughters, if any, would collectively hold a life interest on the entire land.
Upon the last such lapse of usufruct, the land would devolve upon the agnatic kin of the last male landholder.
[2] The law made sectarian affiliation a primary determinant of the inheritance of land.
However, an eldest son who converted to the Protestant faith would inherit all of the land alone, and all of his Catholic brothers would be disinherited.