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Making heads and tails out of Imperial nobility

Letter of Patent (Title)

Charter (Powers and Rights)

Sovereignty (Ave Imperator)

So your Patent is your title, the Charter is the narrow confines of your exclusive Rights or Priviledges, and Sovereingty is from where your authority is derived and can be revoked.

So as you can see, being Noble is not expansive universal power. Your influence (position, the value of your vote, the quantity of votes you can command, the infrastructure you administer) is not completely in line with your Title. Your Daddy can be a Baront (Letter of Patent) with a Charter to establish and operate a Bank, your Daddy is the Right Honourable (Surname), and you are The Honourable (Surname). Until the Title and Charter are transferred (typically post mortem) as the son, people are polite, but know you can't do a damn thing.
 
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