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

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

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

The presidency was a hereditary office of the Prussian crown.

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

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

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

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

Members of his family succeeded him in these hereditary offices.

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