succession : Idioms & Phrases

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Apostolical succession

  • the regular and uninterrupted transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period. Hook.
Webster 1913

chronological succession

  • noun a following of one thing after another in time
    succession; chronological sequence; successiveness; sequence.
    • the doctor saw a sequence of patients
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ecological succession

  • noun (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
    succession.
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line of succession

  • noun the order in which individuals are expected to succeed one another in some official position
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Singular succession

  • (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass.
Webster 1913

Succession duty

  • a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. Eng.
Webster 1913

Succession of crops

  • . (Agric.) See Rotation of crops, under Rotation.
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Vacant succession

  • (Law), one that is claimed by no person, or where all the heirs are unknown, or where all the known heirs to it have renounced it. Burrill.
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war of the austrian succession

  • noun Prussia and Austria fought over Silesia and most of the rest of Europe took sides; 1740-1748
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war of the spanish succession

  • noun a general war in Europe (1701-1714) that broke out when Louis XIV installed his grandson on the throne of Spain; England and Holland hoped to limit Louis' power
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