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Succession is the act or process of following in order or sequence.


Governance and politics

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Order of succession An order of succession or right of succession is the line of individuals necessitated to hold a high office when it becomes vacated such as head of state or an honour such as a title of nobility.Succession of states, in international relations, is the process of recognition and acceptance of a newly created state by other states, based on a perceived historical relationship the new state has with a prior state * Succession planning, in organizations, identifying and developing individuals to succeed to senior positions in government, business, organizations, etc. * Successor company / Successor corporation / Successor in Business


Inheritance

* Apostolic succession, the doctrine, held by some Christian denominations, that bishops are the successors of the original Twelve Apostles, inheriting their spiritual, ecclesiastical and sacramental authority, power, and responsibility *Succession of property, or inheritance, in law, is the passage of an individual's property to one or more dependents according to a formula set out in law, religion, custom or under the terms of a trust * Forced heirship, a form of succession which passes how an estate is to be disposed


Science and mathematics

* Succession (geology), in geology, a group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order * Ecological succession, the series of changes in an ecological community that occur over time after a disturbance. It can be: ** Primary succession, when there is a new substrate with no existing vegetation, as after a volcanic lava flow, or ** Secondary succession, when the substrate has sustained vegetation, as after a fire or flood * Successor function, a primitive recursive function in mathematics used to define addition


Arts, entertainment, and media

* "Succession" (30 Rock), an episode of ''30 Rock'' * ''Succession'' (TV series), an HBO TV series * Simultaneity succession, a particular type of Simultaneity (music)


See also

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Successor (disambiguation) Successor may refer to: * An entity that comes after another (see Succession (disambiguation)) Film and TV * ''The Successor'' (film), a 1996 film including Laura Girling * ''The Successor'' (TV program), a 2007 Israeli television program Musi ...
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