hereditary

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Like many chronic afflictions, Mets fandom can be hereditary or acquired.

From The Wall Street Journal

Two hereditary peers who are set to be removed from the House of Lords will be allowed to keep their parliamentary passes and ceremonial positions.

From BBC

The end is nigh for hereditary peers, whose inherited right to sit in the House of Lords is set to be stripped from them after the passage of a new law this week.

From BBC

The brothers’ strained relationship is both an ordinary story of siblings growing apart and a referendum on the world’s most famous hereditary institution.

From The Wall Street Journal

He added: "We should be proud to sit here as embodiments of the hereditary principle dating back a millennium."

From BBC