William speaks of himself in early charters, as holding England by hereditary right.
The proceedings throughout were what we should expect in a kingdom held by hereditary right, as the chancery of the Conqueror often termed it, and by such a right descending to the heir.
A miyatsuko had administered the affairs of the kuni, holding the office by hereditary right, and the agata of which there were about 590, a frequently changing total as well as the inaki and the mura had been under officials called nushi.
The representatives of one, the senior, branch had their headquarters at Muromachi in Kyoto and held the office of shogun as a hereditary right.
During his childhood, the tutor of this nobleman had made it his chief care to instil into his mind the doctrine of hereditary right, and its consequent, passive obedience and non-resistance.
The Earl of Hereford (who was High Constable), and the Earl Marshal gave as their excuse that they would willingly perform the duties which devolved on them by hereditary right, by accompanying the King in person.
And all Henry's own instruments claim an hereditary right, of which many proofs appear in Rymer.
He married, however, a Danish princess, and thus Ragnar acquired a sort of hereditary right to a Danish kingdom--the territory including various islands and promontories at the entrance of the Baltic Sea.
Alfred followed these by the principle of hereditary right, and spent his life in laying broad and deep the foundations on which the enormous superstructure of the British empire has since been reared.
He could not help remembering that he was turned of forty, an age at which, as the poet tells us, there is no dallying with life; and he began to consider that the time had arrived to claim the crown which was his by hereditary right.
Indeed, the circumstances of the country were such that no hand would have been lifted against sovereigns--whether reigning by Parliamentary or hereditary right--who showed a due respect to ancient rights and liberties.
Whatever he might pretend, Edward had none of the moderation that characterized his father, and he was determined without delay to ascend the throne, which he had been taught to consider his by hereditary right.
Ere this, the White Rose, in addition to being the emblem of hereditary right, had become identified with the cause of civil and religious freedom.
Here too the old view came into the foreground: Parliament was to be made the judge of hereditary right.
Richard being a usurper, and his parliament a factious assembly, his statutes could not bind a lawful and absolute monarch, who held his crown by hereditary right, and needed not to court the favor of a licentious populace.
In his speech to the parliament, he mentioned his just title by hereditary right: but lest that title should not be esteemed sufficient, he subjoined his claim by the judgment of God, who had given him victory over his enemies.
In a commonwealth where magistrates were chosen yearly, where every freeman had an equal vote in their choice, it still happened that, year after year, the representatives of certain famous houses were chosen as if by hereditary right.
The succession of a grandson, which first took place in England in the case of Richard the Second, marks a distinct stage in the growth of the doctrine of hereditary right.
An hereditary right by proximity of blood and promogeniture, being the first born, higher than the kings of the earth, Psal.
And without any head or superior, they conveen and make David king, notwithstanding of Ishbosheth's hereditary right.
The victory of the Boyne, and the irresistible explosion of patriotic feeling produced by the appearance of Tourville's fleet on the coast of Devonshire, had cowed the boldest champions of hereditary right.
A king of England is not king in his own right, or by hereditary right.
Stephen; a prudent agreement, but in defiance of hereditary right.
After him it still devolved with irregularity, although uuder the Tudors, the doctrine of hereditary right was as vaguely maintained as before.
Diss, chaplains, William of Breiton, and many others--that he had no hereditary right in the vills of Groton and Semere.
Adam of Cockfield wanted to claim his father's lands by hereditary right; but William of Diss gives the evidence against this claim.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hereditary right" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
