bloodline Definitie in het Nederlands

Examples of bloodline

• For example, a person over sixty had the right of burial on a piece of land owned in his 'bloodline' and his relative the landowner could not deny the right.

• Gentlemanliness becomes a state of atrophy: status is marked not by bloodlines, but by fatally thickened blood.

• Pierrepont's investment in the defence of empire and national sovereignty was therefore personal, tied in by bloodlines and lived experience.

• The result is seen as ' donor democracy ' without significant domestic bloodlines.

• In case of dispute, bloodline was most important, with sons having preference over daughters.

• Heiresses were also used to recruit capable outsiders into the bloodline.

• It is not clear exactly how broad 'bloodline' went, or whether the yin/yang distinction is a longstanding understanding of land rights.

• However, daughters provided a way for families to recruit capable heirs from outside the family while still maintaining the bloodline connection.