Sentence examples for hereditary office from inspiring English sources

Santa Cruz assumed the office of "protector" of the confederation, a lifetime and hereditary office.

Originating in the minor nobility, the family probably obtained the hereditary office of viscount of Milan early in the 11th century, transforming the title into a surname.

The use of intendants, who held neither venal nor hereditary office, was one way in which the limiting effect of the sale of office on royal policies could be circumvented.

He was also active in the affairs of Holland, extended his territory northward, and acquired ducal rank as William I in 1356 and the hereditary office of marshal of the empire.

When the Commons was debating extending democracy to the other half of our parliament, shadow defence minister Gerald Howarth defended keeping the hereditary Lords on the grounds that: "without them the monarch would be exposed as the one hereditary office in the land".

In the 10th and 11th centuries these advocates had to be recruited from the aristocracy, the very class whose greed for hereditary office was to be checked, because ordinary freemen could not enforce severe sentences or defend the privileges of the church against armed intrusion.

-Are women allowed to hold elected, appointed or hereditary offices?

What of hereditary offices, authorities, and jurisdictions?

In an advanced stage of popular corruption and civil conflict, a desperate people might well be driven to institute hereditary offices, the very lineaments of Paine's detested British polity.

Besides, the loss of his hereditary offices entailed a loss of income.

The new constitution addressed many of the reformist concerns of the Patriots since 1785 (no hereditary offices; no sinecures; accountability of officials).