Tui Nayau - Succession Rules

Succession Rules

The Vuanirewa unwritten rules on succession tend to follow the following three principles:

  • The general custom of passing from elder to younger brother until that generation is extinct, then taking the next generation in the same order
  • The tendency to alternate between the two noble households, Matailakeba and Vatuwaqa, with the exclusion of Naivi and Koroicumu
  • The tendency to recognize superior nobility of the senior branch

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