The Imperial Clansmen consisted of those who trace their descent direct from the founder of the Qing dynasty, and were distinguished by the privilege of wearing a yellow girdle; collateral relatives of the imperial house wore a red girdle.
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According to Morga ( 1961 ), these privileges were inherited only in the male line, from the father to son and the latter s descendants; and in the absence of these, the brothers and collateral relatives were also inherited.
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Shares in Levi Strauss stock are not publicly traded; the firm is owned almost entirely by indirect descendants and collateral relatives of Levi Strauss, whose four nephews inherited the San Francisco dry-goods firm after their uncle's death in 1902.
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When the direct line of the Campbells of Craignish ended in 1544, the rightful heir, a collateral relative by the name of Charles'Tearlach Mor'Campbell of Corranmore in Craignish had the misfortune to kill Gillies of Glenmore in a brawl.
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If these were lacking, then their brothers and collateral relatives succeeded . . . When any of these chiefs was more courageous than others in war and upon other occasions, such a one enjoyed more followers and men; and the others were under his leadership, even if they were chiefs.
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Though the Bonde family, not descendants of Charles himself but just his collateral relatives, remained prominent among the Swedish nobility and in politics into the 20th Century, Charles's own descendants did not ascend nor inherit any thrones until Prince Christian zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg became Christian IX of Denmark in 1863.
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In the absence of male descendants in the male-line, there are variations of primogeniture which allocate the inheritance to a daughter or a brother or, in the absence of either, to another collateral relative, in a specified order ( e . g . male-preference primogeniture, Salic primogeniture, semi-Salic primogeniture ).
