Succession

Generally, the succession is a series of people, things or events which follow one another, which is followed without interruption or to little interval. It is also the fact of succeeding somebody at a station, a capacity, a responsibility or a load.
In right, the succession generally indicates the transmission of the inheritance of a person deceased. One often assimilates to it the legal formalities which result from it (the payment of the succession).
the term is sometimes used, wrongly, to indicate the whole of the having right the late one but also the unit of the goods which it leaves with its death.
In Ecclesiology, the apostolic Succession is the succession of named bishops or elected officials with the head of a diocese.

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