leviratical

• the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother´s line
• Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband´s brother

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