Heritage, which includes land, and all property connected with land, goes to males in preference to females; and, where there are more than one male in the same degree of relationship to the deceased, the succession goes to the eldest male; the others receive the moveables equally amongst them, and are termed the nearest of kin, or executors of the deceased. Where there are more than one female in the same degree of relationship to the deceased, or the descendants of such female, according to the jus repraesentationis, the heritage does not go to the eldest female, as happens in the case of males, but it goes to all the females in the same degree of relationship, and their issue, equally, who are termed heirs-portioners.