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It depends. It varies from culture to culture and even from situation to situation. Generally speaking, primogeniture refers to making the firstborn (often the firstborn son, thus bypassing any daughters born before that son, though not necessarily) the sole heir to everything owned by his or her parents. The firstborn inherits all titles, lands, property, and money, it then becoming the firstborn's. If the firstborn has died, then primogeniture gives way and the eldest surviving child (again, often the eldest son, though not necessarily) becomes the heir apparent.
In the UK, for example, primogeniture in the monarchy meant passing the Crown and all the Crown's lands, property, and wealth to the firstborn son, but if no firstborn son, then to the firstborn daughter. So, when King George, who had no sons, died, primogeniture meant his firstborn daughter, Elizabeth, inherited the Crown and all the Crown's lands, property, and wealth, she becoming Queen Regnant, her then husband, Prince Philip, becoming not Prince Regnant but merely Prince Consort. Prince Charles is their firstborn, so he has the right of primogeniture. He gained his princedom and will, upon his mother's death, inherit the Crown from her and become King of the United Kingdom and inheriting all the Crown's lands, property, and wealth, inherit her extremely vast wealth. However, his father, Prince Philip, also has assets of his own, he being born a prince in his own right, Prince of Greece, so when Prince Philip dies, Prince Charles will inherit from his father as primogeniture, as well. Having the right of primogeniture, Prince Charles will inherit from both parents and their titles, lands, property, and wealth will all combine in him with his own wealth to become what his firstborn, Prince William, will inherit through right of primogeniture. Now Prince William's mother, Princess Diana, has already died. When she died, he would've had the right of primogeniture and inherited her substantial wealth, but since she was no longer titled nor had any inherited title other than the honorific of "Lady" via her father the 8th Earl Spencer, she was able to supersede his right of primogeniture to inherit all her wealth by making a last will and testament that superseded it and divided her wealth equally between him and his younger brother, Prince Harry, her stated reason being that she wanted both of her sons to have wealth and means outside of that provided by the Crown, by the Royal Family, so that they would not be bound to the Crown and so that if ever they so chose, they would have the means to walk away from the Crown and live independently from the Royal Family and not have that choice mean a life of destitution and poverty, which turned out to be quite prescient of Princess Diana, for her son Prince Harry has done exactly that, walked away from the Crown, from the Royal Family, and had she not done that, had she not overridden primogeniture and made him an equal heir to her wealth, he very likely could not have made the choice to do that as he could not have been able to afford that choice, afford to live independently of the Crown, especially given his lifelong need to pay for a protection detail for himself and his family and how his global fame and need for an entourage of personal protection very much limits his ability to go into business or get any kind of paying job.
The UK recently changed primogeniture, though. So one day when Prince George, son of Prince William, grandson of Prince Charles, great grandson of Queen Elizabeth, is King, should his firstborn be a daughter and his secondborn be a son, the Crown will not pass to his firstborn son, like has been how primogeniture has always been defined in the UK's monarchy, but will instead pass to his firstborn, so if his firstborn is a daughter, primogeniture will make her his sole heir.