Hereditary Title (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hereditary titles, in a general sense, are titles, positions or styles that are hereditary and thus tend or are bound to remain in particular families. Some hereditary titles are inherited only by the eldest son (see primogeniture); others may pass to the eldest child of either gender, or to all children of a family equally (although this is rare), or can be shared and thus multiplied in the case of a title and/or divided in the case of a 'real' object. In some traditions adoption is a common way around biological kinship, as in the Hindu tradition to assure there is a male heir of the same caste.