Primogeniture is the custom of passing on land to the?

Answer 1

This depends on the FORM. Primogeniture is the word for 'right of inheritance', and there are a number of forms of this.

1. Absolute primogeniture. In this form, the inheritance goes to the eldest child, no matter the sex. This is practiced among several diffrent European royal houses, such as Sweden and Norway.
2. Salic Law. In this form, only males may inherit, bypassing female decendants entirely.
3. Matrilineal primogeniture. In this form, only FEMALE decendants may recieve inheritance. While much more uncommon than Salic law, it does occur in, for instance, the dynastic descent of the Rain Queen of South Africa.
4. Male-preference cognatic primogeniture. In this form, females may inherit, but only if there are no eligible males. The Line of Succession to the British throne is the most well-known example of this.

Beyond this, there are several other forms with greater or lesser amounts of convulted rulings.

Answer 2

The eldest son

Answer 3

oldest son.