The masks are carried in a procession by members of the Gurav family, seen as the hereditary custodians of the shrine.

In the 1881 census nearly a quarter of the inhabitants of that hamlet ( three families ) had the surname Mason ( an otherwise uncommon name in that part of England ); based on this and other circumstantial evidence he proposes that the Mason family could have been the custodians of a hereditary witchcraft tradition.

Contrary to the thinking of 30 to 40 years ago, when all malocclusion was blamed on some unfortunate habit, recent studies show that most tooth irregularity has at least its beginning in hereditary predisposition.

`` In the past anyone who said that 90% of all malocclusion is hereditary was scoffed at ; ;

When the Sequani, their hereditary rivals, with the assistance of a Germanic chieftain named Ariovistus defeated and massacred the Aedui at the Battle of Magetobriga, the Aedui sent Diviciacus, the druid, to Rome to appeal to the senate for help.

The title was not exactly hereditary but self proclaimed by those who had, wholly or partially, united the Christian northern part of the Iberian peninsula, often at the expense of killing rival siblings.

Its colonel assumed the title of Governor at Arms, a hereditary lifetime appointment which stayed in the hands of the Sánchez-Dumpiérrez family.

Today, most gene therapy studies are aimed at cancer and hereditary diseases linked to a genetic defect.

Although this should, in theory, be highly effective in counteracting genetic disorders and hereditary diseases, many jurisdictions prohibit this for application in human beings, at least for the present, for a variety of technical and ethical reasons.

in 1992 Doctor Claudio Bordignon working at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy performed the first procedure of gene therapy using hematopoietic stem cells as vectors to deliver genes intended to correct hereditary diseases.

On 25 October 1920 the Italian government recognized Sheikh Sidi Idris the hereditary head of the nomadic Senussi, with wide authority in Kufra and other oases, as Emir of Cyrenaica, a new title extended by the British at the close of World War I.

Elagabalus's family held hereditary rights to the priesthood of the sun god Elagabal, of whom Elagabalus was the high priest at Emesa ( modern Homs ) in Syria.

Judges at the House of Lords secured their position by mere virtue of the fact that their fathers were hereditary peers and so individuals would automatically inherit seats in the upper house rather than securing their position through merit.

There were no particular honorifics that would accompany a knight's name as historically all ( or at least by far most ) its members would be royals or hereditary lords anyway.

His father, Gruffydd Fychan II, hereditary Tywysog of Powys Fadog and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy, died some time before 1370 leaving Glyndŵr's mother Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn of Deheubarth a widow and Owain a young man of maybe 16 years at most.

The Pope at the time ruled only Rome ( when not rebellious ) and its environs: Braccio held Umbria, Bologna was an independent commune, while much of Romagna and the Marche was held by local " vicars ", which were in fact petty hereditary lords.

This indicates that a Cardassian is in the prime of life for at least 60 + years ( assuming it takes some time to become a Gul, as it is a military and not hereditary title ).

Elagabalus ' family held hereditary rights to the priesthood of the sun god El-Gabal, of whom Elagabalus was the high priest at Emesa ( modern Homs ) in Syria.

But at the same time, legally mandated, hereditary slavery of Scots persons in Scotland had existed from 1606 until 1799, when colliers and salters were legally emancipated by an act of the Parliament of Great Britain ( 39 Geo. III.

Another archaic remnant was the very persistence of a hereditary monarchy which wielded formidablesometimes absolutepower, although this was at times checked by the landed aristocracy, and often disturbed by power struggles within the royal family itself.

According to the chronist Bartholomew of Lucca, he discussed with Rudolph, in general terms at least, of splitting the German Empire into four separate kingdoms-Lombardy, Burgundy, Tuscia and Germany, where Rudolph's kingdom would be made hereditary in addition to himself becoming emperor.

Although slave status was hereditary, they could be sold or freed at officially set prices, and the mistreatment of slaves was forbidden.

An increasing degree of deafness, caused by hereditary otosclerosis, led to Alexandra's social isolation ; she spent more time at home with her children and pets.

The Bolivian Constitution had a lifelong presidency and a hereditary senate, essentially recreating the British unwritten constitution, as it existed at the time, without formally establishing a monarchy.

In an attempt to retain control over Norway despite the treaty, the Viceroy and hereditary prince of Denmark – Norway encouraged representatives of various social and political factions to gather at Eidsvoll to declare independence, adopt a constitution and elect hereditary prince Christian Frederik as king.

James, the hereditary High Steward of Scotland, surrendered the important fortress at Roxburgh without attempting a defence, and others were quick to follow his example.

The Holy Roman Empire, which was an Elective monarchy, came to be dominated by the Habsburg dynasty, who would turn it into a hereditary position in all but name.

His forced conversions or evictions carried out in the midst of the Thirty Years ' War, which with the later general success of the Protestants therefore had greatly negative consequences for Habsburg control of the Holy Roman Empire itself, while these campaigns within the Habsburg hereditary lands were largely successful in religiously purifying his demesnes, leaving the Austrian Emperors thereafter with much greater control within their hereditary power base — although Hungary was never successfully re-Catholicized — but one much reduced in population and economic might while less vigorous and weakened as a nation-state.

In 1809 the conventual buildings were converted into a palace for the prince of Thurn and Taxis, hereditary postmaster-general of the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1530, however, Pope, Clement VII ( Giulio de ’ Medici ) with the help of soldiers of the Holy Roman Emperor, restored Medici rule and Florence became an hereditary dukedom.

In parts of the Holy Roman Empire in which primogeniture did not prevail ( i. e. Germany ), all legitimate agnates had an equal right to the family's hereditary titles.

Her father had been Holy Roman Emperor, but Maria Theresa was not a candidate for that title, which had never been held by a woman ; the plan was for her to succeed to the hereditary domains, and her husband, Francis Stephen, to be elected Holy Roman Emperor.

A state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Austrian Circle and a duchy in the hereditary possession of the Habsburgs, later part of the Austrian Empire and of Austria-Hungary, the region was a crown land from 1849, when it was also subdivided into Upper Carniola, Lower Carniola, and Inner Carniola, until 1918.

The most outstanding objects are the ancient crown of the Holy Roman Emperors and also the insignia of the much later hereditary Austrian emperors.

While most other Germanic nations had developed a strictly hereditary system by the end of the first millennium, the Holy Roman Empire could not, and the King of the Romans, who would become Holy Roman Emperor or at least Emperor-elect, was selected by the college of prince-electors from the late Middle Ages until 1806 ( the last election actually took place in 1792 ).

Baron and noble ( nobile ) are hereditary titles and, as such, could only be created or recognised by the kings of Italy or ( before 1860 ) the pre-unitary Italian states such as the Two Sicilies, Tuscany, Parma or Modena, or by the Holy See ( Vatican ) or the Republic of San Marino.

Before his accession, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburgs in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

On the accession of his brother Charles to title of Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, he entrusted Ferdinand with the government of the Austrian hereditary lands, roughly modern-day Austria and Slovenia.

In most hereditary monarchies and some elective monarchies ( e. g. Holy Roman Empire ) there have been no limits on the duration of a sovereign's reign or incumbency, nor is there a term of office.

The office having become hereditary, Pfalzgrafen were in existence until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806.

There were four hereditary burgraviates ranking as principalities within the Holy Roman Empire:

He was also a member of many academies and probably the first scholar to have been created hereditary Baron of the Holy Roman Empire on the basis of his academic work.

The Holy Roman Empire is perhaps the best-known example of a elective monarchy ( although it eventually became unofficially hereditary ); after the 15th century, the emperor was elected by a small council of nobles called prince-electors from within the Hapsburg family.

While in later France the kingdom became hereditary, the kings of the later Holy Roman Empire proved unable to abolish the elective tradition and continued as elected rulers until the empire's formal end in 1806.

A few Chinese families enjoyed hereditary titles in the full sense, the chief among them being the Holy Duke of Yen ( the descendant of Confucius ); others, such as the lineal descendants of Wen Tianxiang, ennobled the Duke of Xingguo, not choosing to use their hereditary title.

The Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 ( Latin: Pragmatica Sanctio ) was an edict issued by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI to ensure that the hereditary possessions of the Habsburgs could be inherited by a daughter.