a. Define and describe it. (Your primary source is the actual English law*)
b. How does it influence characters and events in the novel?
Example of relevant article:
Clay, Christopher. “Marriage, Inheritance, and the Rise of Large Estates in England, 1660-1815.” The Economic History Review, vol. 21, no. 3, 1968, pp. 503–18. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2592747.
Example of relevant article:
Hackney, Jeffrey. "Law, Land and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800." The English Historical Review, vol. 111, no. 442, June 1996, pp. 703+. Gale In Context: World History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A18602346/WHIC?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-WHIC&xid=2e4c698f.
Example of relevant eBook:
Lloyd, Eyre, 1831-1895. The Succession Laws of Christian Countries: With Special Reference to the Law of Primogeniture As it Exists In England. London: Stevens and Haynes, 1877, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100403260/Home.