However, heir-property status also introduces uncertainty over ownership and responsibility and, ultimately, conflict as families try to work out claims on land.
When Mr. Sullivan became chief operating officer in 2002, the status of heir apparent became his to lose.
By backing the 32-year-old crown prince so wholeheartedly, the president cemented his status as heir to the House of Saud.
European leaders established the European Central Bank's headquarters in Frankfurt as a symbol of its status as heir to the Bundesbank.
They decided that "it was fundamental" that the lobbying by the heir "cannot have constitutional status" and cannot be protected from disclosure.
They decided "it was fundamental" that the lobbying by the heir "cannot have constitutional status" and cannot be protected from disclosure.
At the last such meeting, in 1980, the party confirmed Kim Jong-il's status as heir apparent to his father, Kim Il-sung, although he did not become leader until his father's death in 1994.
Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath and James Callaghan all attended the Prince of Wales's marriage to Lady Diana Spencer because his status as heir to the throne made it a formal state occasion.
While waiting in the wings for five years, Xi has carefully avoided giving any hint of his priorities, remaining strictly neutral to avoid endangering his status as heir among the party's competing factions.
In the northern province, for example, a major potlatch was part of the cycle of mortuary observances after the death of a chief, at which his heir formally assumed chiefly status; in the Wakashan and Salish regions, a chief gave a potlatch before his own demise in order to bestow office on his successor.
