hereditary office

Members of his family succeeded him in these hereditary offices.

Under him, the caliphate became a hereditary office for the first time.

Barquentine takes on the hereditary office following the death of his father in the first book.

Also, from 1 November 1716, any hereditary office they might have held was to be extinguished.

As hereditary offices, they were often passed from father to son creating a class consciousness.

The presidency was a hereditary office of the Prussian crown.

Even the "President" (now a hereditary office) had to beg audiences with corporations.

The legislators abolished hereditary offices, except for the monarchy itself.

The head of state is the Emir or Sheikh, a hereditary office.

While in theory elected by elders, in practice the Imam was an hereditary office.

After the war, some of the former colonies included clauses prohibiting hereditary office in their state constitutions.

The surname has its origins in the hereditary office of butler of Ireland.

Ultimately, Sokolnicki claimed that the grand mastership was an hereditary office for his family.

Hamada is the last known Surameli to have been in possession of his family's hereditary offices.

Hutcheon held the hereditary office of brieve, on Lewis.

For both these periods, the sequence of tombs is unbroken, and the hereditary office passed from one man to his son or younger brother.

Lord High Steward of Ireland is a hereditary office held since the 15th century.

He succeeded to the hereditary office of Earl Marshal in 1432, on the death of his father.

Nine Rana rulers took the hereditary office of Prime Minister.

Besides, the loss of his hereditary offices entailed a loss of income.

Proctor revived the use of the title, tayac, a hereditary office which he claimed had been handed down through his family.

Its members had the hereditary office of sénéchal in the bishopric of Trier.

The warden usually had under him foresters of fee, whose hereditary offices were subject to the usual feudal incidents.

The throne was a hereditary office of the male descendants of Carol; women were excluded by salic law.

Muawiyah transformed the caliphate into a hereditary office, thus founding the Umayyad dynasty.