See also:

• TANISTRY (from Gaelic Lana, lordship)

TANISTRY (from Gaelic Lana, lordship)  , a See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom among various See also:

• CELTIC

Celtic tribes, by which the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king or See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of the See also:

• CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan was chosen from among the heads of the septs and elected by them in full See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly . He held See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office for See also:

• LIFE

life and was required by custom to be of full See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, in See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of all his faculties and without any remarkable blemish of mind or See also:

• BODY

body . At the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and subject to the same conditions, a tanist or next See also:

• HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir to the chieftaincy was elected, who if the king died or became disqualified, at once became king . Usually the king's son became tanist, but not because the See also:

• SYSTEM

system of See also:

• PRIMOGENITURE

primogeniture was in any way recognized; indeed, the only principle adopted was that the dignity of chieftainship should descend to the eldest and most worthy of the same See also:

• BLOOD

blood . These epithets, as See also:

• HALLAM
• HALLAM, ROBERT (d. 1417)

Hallam says, were not necessarily synonymous, but merely indicated that the preference given to seniority was to be controlled by a due regard to See also:

• DESERT

desert (Constit . Hist., vol. iii. c. xviii.) . This system of See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession See also:

• LEFT

left the headship open to the ambitious, and was a frequent source of strife both in families and.between the clans . See also:

• TANISTRY (from Gaelic Lana, lordship)

Tanistry was abolished by a legal decision in the reign of See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James I. and the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• LAND

land system substituted .