The aristocracy of Jinavia is the ruling class and the upper class of the Empire. Within the Aristocracy, the princely class is the most economically and politically powerful social group. The nobility might be either inherited or conferred by a fons honorum (Emperor or Patriarch of the Empire). Nobility is an acknowledged preeminence that is hereditary, i.e. all legitimate, male-line descendants of noblemen are noble. The distinctions are noble titles, predicates and coats. The titles can be freely granted by the Emperor and the Patriarch of the Empire. Their transmissibility is under the Salic law. The succession to titles of nobility and predicates attached place for the last male descendant invested by order of primogeniture, without limitation degrees, preferably on the state line. Wh