hereditary possession

This land was to pass from father to son in free hereditary possession.

They are part of the hereditary possessions of the Crown.

Angus determined not to surrender any of the hereditary possessions to the king, or even to his father himself.

So long as the world and moon exist, Anjuvannam shall be his hereditary possession.

But, till hereditary possessions are spread abroad, how can we expect men to be proud of virtue?

It is considered a hereditary possession and is passed on to one of their kin to continue the tradition.

In 1724, he was granted the village Lyskovo in hereditary possession.

Later, the office of sparapet would become hereditary possession of the Mamikonians.

Harburg was defined as an hereditary possession and its territory increased by the district of Moisburg.

The conversion of a fief into a hereditary possession - a familiar process in the 19th century - is called "allodification".

The King therefore granted him, as a mark of favour, a small tract of land on the sea-coast in addition to his hereditary possessions.

These scrolls containing information going back to several past centuries formed the valued part of the bards' hereditary possessions.

Fifteen days later, on 23 February, he received Cieszyn as a hereditary possession, maintaining a large internal sovereignty.

It was caused by an attempt by the Zamindars to oust the tribal peasants from their hereditary possessions.

The settlers' land grant was tax exempt for three years, and it was to be kept in eternal and hereditary possession.

A main claim of these books was that the North and East were hereditary possessions of the Tamils.

The possessors of family wealth, and of the distinction which attends hereditary possession (as most concerned in it), are the natural securities for this transmission.

In the late Middle Kingdom, there exist families holding the titles of mayor and overseer of priests as hereditary possessions.

In 1446, King George of Poděbrady made these liens into hereditary possessions of the Pernstein family.

In return he was promised his hereditary possessions of Luneburg and Brunswick, but ordered to leave Germany for three years, and so returned to England.

He was considerably assisted in his endeavours by the fact that Norway was regarded as the hereditary possession of the kings of Denmark.

Silesia's borders and national affiliation have changed over time, both when it was a hereditary possession of noble houses and after the rise of modern nation-states.

In medieval Georgia, Tori was in hereditary possession of the Gamrekeli (Toreli) family.

A peerage was an hereditary possession that, like the family land, concerned only the eldest sons of the house; it radiated no lustre of noblesse oblige.

From then until the dissolution of the Empire by Napoleon in 1806 the Imperial crown was effectively the hereditary possession of the Habsburg family.