These 92 were elected from within those who had had a right to be members of the House of Lords as a result of their hereditary status.

Although this hereditary status is no longer legally granted, it continues in practice.

Tribal society tends to the egalitarian, with its leadership based on ties of kinship and personality rather than on hereditary status.

For reactionary nobles, the king was the guarantor of their hereditary status.

After this Austrått passed out of hereditary status as a seat of nobility, and lost its Åsetesrett status.

Like the yanakuna, they were exempt from taxation and held hereditary status.

Within a framework of leisure class preoccupations and frivolities Shaw disdains hereditary status and proclaims the nobility of workers.

After the deaths of these persons, who thus remain in possession of certain noble rights, all hereditary noble status here in the kingdom ceases to exist.

The village court also employs the service of the Tangsam or town-crier, which invariably is a hereditary status.

The matrilineal culture meant that women controlled property, such as their dwellings, and their children were considered born into their mother's clan, where they gained hereditary status.