hereditary rank

  • 1Hereditary peer — Hereditary peers form part of the Peerage in the United Kingdom. There are over seven hundred peers who hold titles that may be inherited. Formerly, most of them were entitled to a seat in House of Lords, but since the House of Lords Act 1999… …

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  • 2Hereditary title — Hereditary titles, in a general sense, are titles, positions or styles that are hereditary and thus tend or are bound to remain in particular families. Some hereditary titles are inherited only by the eldest son (see primogeniture) [cite web|… …

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  • 3Hereditary officers of the Roman Curia — The Roman Court or Papal Curia was reformed by the Bull Pontificalis Domus of 1969. This abolished the role of the old Roman nobility at the Papal Court with the exception of the position of Prince Assistant to the Papal Throne. These titles… …

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  • 4Hereditary Commander — A Hereditary Commander is a (Knight) Commander whose family holds that title by hereditary right.Hereditary Commanders of the Russian traditionReference to hereditary commanders of the Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller is frequently… …

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  • 5hereditary — adjective 1 mental or physical qualities, abilities, or illnesses etc that are hereditary are passed from parent to child in the cells of the body 2 a) BrE a position, rank, or title that is hereditary can be passed from an older to a younger… …

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  • 6hereditary — he|red|i|ta|ry [hıˈredıtəri US teri] adj 1.) a quality or illness that is hereditary is passed from a parent to a child before the child is born →↑genetic 2.) BrE a hereditary position, rank, or title can be passed from an older to a younger… …

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  • 7Distance-hereditary graph — A distance hereditary graph. In graph theoretic mathematics, a distance hereditary graph (also called a completely separable graph)[1] is a graph in which the distances in any connected induced subgraph are the same as they are in the original… …

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  • 8Bone rank system — Hangul 골품제도 Hanja 骨品制度 Revised Romanization …

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  • 9Imperial Firman Relative to Hereditary Succession — The Imperial Firman Relative to Hereditary Succession was a firman (i.e. decree) issued by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdülaziz on 17 May 1866 at the request of Isma il Pasha, the wāli (i.e. governor) of Egypt, which was then an Ottoman… …

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  • 10Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont — Infobox Military Person name= Josias Erbprinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont lived=birth date|1896|5|13|df=y death date and age|1967|11|30|1896|5|13|df=y placeofbirth=Schloß Schaumburg, Arolsen, German Empire placeofdeath=Schloß Schaumburg, Arolsen,… …

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