Succession is the act or process of following in order or sequence.
Governance and politics
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Order of succession
An order, line 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
* Forced heirship, a form of succession which passes how an estate is to be disposed
*Succession of property, or
inheritance
Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have changed over time. Offi ...
, the passage of an individual's property to one or more dependents according to a formula in law or religion
Science and mathematics
* Ecological succession, the series of changes in an ecological community that occur over time after a disturbance
** Primary succession, when there is a new substrate with no existing vegetation, as after a volcanic lava flow
** Secondary succession, when the substrate has sustained vegetation, as after a fire or flood
* Succession (geology), in geology, a group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order
* Successor function, a primitive recursive function in mathematics used to define addition