Then there are peers with hereditary titles, where succeeding generations take a different party whip from their forebears. (theconversation.com)
And while residents of our 2011 winner may not have hereditary titles, the area is home to its fair share of Canadian royalty: mayoral hopeful John Tory and Blue Jays president Paul Beeston have both lived here. (canadianbusiness.com)
Among other things, he opposed in a pamphlet the idea that marriage between a non-Sayyid man and a Sayyid's daughter should be forbidden; he opposed the custom of regarding Sayyid as a hereditary title, like Sharif, for descendants of the Prophet, for the word does not mean anything more than gentleman, or the title Mr. Of course such a pamphlet caused a break with the Organization for the Good, for it included several Sayyids. (religion-online.org)