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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