tanistry

How to use tanistry in a sentence

• tanistry continued in force there until the beginning of the last century.

  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) | Edmund Burke

• The law of succession, called tanaisteacht, or tanistry, is one of the most peculiar of the Brehon laws.

  An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 | Mary Frances Cusack

• Freehold and leasehold, primogeniture and entail, took the place of tribal ownership and tanistry.

  Irish History and the Irish Question | Goldwin Smith

• The customs of "gavelkinde" and "tanistry" were attended with the same absurdity in the distribution of property.

  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. | David Hume

• Notwithstanding the above decision, it is probable that a description of tanistry and gavelkind does not exhaust the subject.

  Ireland under the Tudors, Volume I (of II) | Richard Bagwell