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• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

SUCCESSION (See also:

• LAT

Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)  the See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of succeeding or following, as of events, See also:

• OBJECTS

objects, places in a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, &c., but particularly, in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the transmission or passing of rights from one to another . In every See also:

• SYSTEM

system of law See also:

• PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision has to be made for a readjustment of things or goods on the See also:

• DEATH

death of the human beings who owned and enjoyed them . See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

Succession to rights may be considered from two points of view: in some ways they depend on the See also:

• PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality of those who are concerned with them: if you hire a servant, you acquire a claim against a certain See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person and your claim will disappear on his death . But See also:

• PERSONAL

personal relations are commonly, implicated in the arrangement of See also:

• PROPERTY

property: if a person borrows See also:

• MONEY

money, the creditor expects to be paid even should the debtor See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die, and the actual See also:

• PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment will depend to a See also:

• GREAT

great extent on the rules as to See also:

• INHERITANCE

inheritance . Succession, in the sense of the See also:

• PARTITION

partition or redistribution of the property of a former owner is, in See also:

• MODERN

modern systems of law, the subject of many rules . Such rules may be based on the will of a de-ceased person . They will be found in such articles as ADMINIS- TRATION; See also:

• ASSETS (from the O. Nor. Fr. assetz, mod. Fr. asset, " enough")

ASSETS; EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS; INHERITANCE; See also:

• INTESTACY (Lat. intestates, one who has not made a will, from testari, to, bear witness)

INTESTACY; See also:

• LEGACY (Lat. legatum)

LEGACY; WILL; &C . There are cases, however, in which a will cannot be expressed; this eventuality is discussed in the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article, and there-can be no doubt that it is the most characteristic one from the point of view of social conditions . It represents the view of society at large as to what ought to be the normal course of succession in the readjustment of property after the death of a See also:

• CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen . We shall dwell chiefly on the customs of succession among the nations of See also:

• ARYAN

Aryan stock .