However, there were cases where some branch families of kazoku were also ranked as kazoku due to special considerations, and a son of a kazoku family who was not an heir of the family was adopted into some other kazoku family.
もっとも、華族の分家には特旨により特に華族に列せられる例や、家を継がない華族の子には他華族家の養子となる例も見られた。