Pope Leo XIII taught: "It is a most sacred law of nature that a father should provide food and all necessaries for those whom he has begotten... by the ownership of productive property, which he can transmit to his children by inheritance."

In the first of a two-part episode on property and inheritance law, I draw from the writings of Côme de Prévigny, Frédéric le Play, Oscar Mendez and modern studies to examine the importance of primogeniture inheritance for the conservation and flourishing of family patrimony and its corollary: diffuse economic and political power.

I compare the case studies of historic inheritance regimes in France, the United States of America and England to extract the perennial Catholic economic principles that we may apply today and in the future. 

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