From HomoExcelsior

• The act or process of following in order or sequence.
• A series.
• The sequence in which one person after another succeeds to a title, throne, dignity, or estate.
• The right of a person or line of persons to so succeed.
• The person or line having such a right.
• The act or process of succeeding to the rights or duties of another.
• The act or process of becoming entitled as a legal beneficiary to the property of a deceased person.
• The gradual and orderly process of ecosystem development brought about by changes in community composition and the production of a climax characteristic of a particular geographic region.

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