succession

noun10

1. •
   An act, process, or instance of succeeding.
2. •
   An act of following in sequence.
3. •
   A passing of royal powers.
4. •
   (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
5. •
   A sequence of things in order.
6. •
   A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
7. •
   A race or series of descendants.
8. •
   Rotation, as of crops.
9. •
   A right to take possession.
10. •
    (no longer used, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

    • long descent of Kings , whose names only for many successions without other memory stand thus register'd — 1670