Sentences with phrase «inherited by his eldest»

No rank held by a woman can confer any title or even precedence upon her husband, although the rank of an hereditary woman peer in her own right is inherited by her eldest son (or, in some cases, daughter).

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The earliest rule by the elders of the community and the essentially democratic freedom inherited from nomad society would seem to imply a respect for inherited custom and some more or less crude sense of justice.
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