He was, after all, the hereditary Elector of Ratisbon, with an hereditary seat in the Reichstag.

Some retained a role in local administration and became law courts, while others are still handed down in aristocratic families as hereditary seats.

Kisimul Castle at Castlebay is the hereditary seat of the MacNeils.

The system of hereditary seats was prone to corruption and it came to several major struggles in the following decades.

He himself sat on the hereditary seat of the exalted Khanqah-e-Madaria.

Sultan of Johor is a hereditary seat and the nominal ruler of the Malaysian state of Johor.

As Marquis, Shō Ten held a hereditary seat in the House of Peers in the Imperial Diet.

Sultan of Perak is one of the oldest hereditary seats among the Malay states.

This collection, including more than 2,000 letters and over 200 account books, is housed in the archives in Modena, a hereditary seat of the Este family.

Being his father's third son, he was not destined to inherit the family's hereditary seat in the Banner hierarchy.