order of succession

order of succession
A formula or algorithm that determines who inherits an office upon the death, resignation, or removal of its current occupant.

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  • order of succession — index hierarchy (arrangement in a series) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Order of succession — An order of succession is a formula or algorithm that determines who inherits an office upon the death, resignation, or removal of its current occupant.[citation needed] Part of a series on …   Wikipedia

  • SUCCESSION — SUCCESSION, devolution of the deceased person s property on his legal heirs. Order of Succession The Pentateuchal source of the order of succession is If a man die and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Succession — is the act or process of following in order or sequence. (It is not to be confused with secession, the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity). Succession may further refer to, within the context of order and sequence …   Wikipedia

  • succession — Synonyms and related words: Indian file, accession, affiliation, afterlife, alternation, ancestry, anointing, anointment, apparentation, appointment, array, arrogation, articulation, assignment, assumption, at intervals, attainment, authorization …   Moby Thesaurus

  • Order of precedence — For the notion of order of precedence in mathematics and computer science, see order of operations. v · d · e Orders of precedence …   Wikipedia

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  • succession — noun 1 series of people, things, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ endless, long, never ending ▪ constant, continuous, unbroken, uninterrupted ▪ quick …   Collocations dictionary

  • succession — suc·ces·sion /sək se shən/ n 1 a: the order in which or the conditions under which one person after another succeeds to a property, dignity, position, title, or throne the sequence of succession to the presidency b: the right of a person or line… …   Law dictionary

  • Order of Preachers —     Order of Preachers     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Order of Preachers     As the Order of the Friars Preachers is the principal part of the entire Order of St. Dominic, we shall include under this title the two other parts of the order: the… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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