North Korea is the world's only Communist country with hereditary leadership.

They gained their status through her, and hereditary leadership for males was passed through the maternal line.

This act eliminated another of the families who formed the hereditary leadership of the Catholic community in Ireland.

They maintained their religion, but abandoned communal ownership of land, rejecting hereditary leadership and communal living as being non-essential to it.

In those systems, women controlled property and hereditary leadership was passed through the women's line.

Women controlled some property, and hereditary leadership passed through the maternal line.

As the Cherokee had a matrilineal system of property and hereditary leadership, the children traditionally gained their status in the tribe from their mother's people.

Often property and hereditary leadership passed through the maternal line.

Some property was controlled by women, and it and hereditary leadership among the tribe passed through the maternal line.

Property and hereditary leadership passed through the maternal line, and the mother's eldest brother was the main male mentor of the children, especially of boys.