The quality or state of being successive.

A suburb of Perth, Western Australia. / A town in Clay County, Arkansas. / A ghost town in Jasper County, Mississippi. / An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.

plural of successivity

The quality or fact of being successive.

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

An ordered sequence of named people who would succeed to a particular office upon the death, resignation or removal of the current occupant; constructed using the rules of an established order of succession.

(Christianity) The unbroken chain of consecrations by laying on of hands from the Apostles of Jesus Christ to the bishops, and from to bishop to bishop through the ages.

plural of line of succession

plural of order of succession

plural of apostolic succession