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SUCCESSION (See also:Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after) the See also:act of succeeding or following, as of events, See also:objects, places in a See also:series, &c., but particularly, in See also:law, the transmission or passing of rights from one to another. In every See also:system of law See also:provision has to be made for a readjustment of things or goods on the See also:death of the human beings who owned and enjoyed them. Succession to rights may be considered from two points of view: in some ways they depend on the See also:personality of those who are concerned with them: if you hire a servant, you acquire a claim against a certain See also:person and your claim will disappear on his death. But See also:personal relations are commonly, implicated in the arrangement of See also:property: if a person borrows See also:money, the creditor expects to be paid even should the debtor See also:die, and the actual See also:payment will depend to a See also:great extent on the rules as to See also:inheritance. Succession, in the sense of the See also:partition or redistribution of the property of a former owner is, in See also: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; EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS; INHERITANCE; See also:INTESTACY; See also:LEGACY; WILL; &C. There are cases, however, in which a will cannot be expressed; this eventuality is discussed in the See also:present See also: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. We shall dwell chiefly on the customs of succession among the nations of See also:Aryan stock.

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