legal succession

Degrees of relationship are not identical to heirship or legal succession.

The coup plotters argue that it was actually a legal succession.

He was, after all, a lightweight, as everyone agreed, and he would forgo the legal succession.

As stated in Article 106, the President ensures state independence, national security and the legal succession of the state.

Three documents were signed on issues of legal succession to the Soviet Union regarding treaties, property, archives and debts and assets.

We must be ready to stamp out, together, any lord or group of lords who wish to overthrow the Taiko's will, or the legal succession.'

"I am not here because of a coup, I am here because of a legal succession," he insisted.

The question of legal succession to the French crown was central to the war over generations of English and French claimants.

He and his mother had become increasingly estranged since 1150, and Baldwin blamed the constable Manasses for interfering with his legal succession.

The supreme body was the Council of Heads of State, which would take on the responsibility of legal succession from the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Though Henry III established a law that could prevent Eleanor from legal succession, from 1223 he and his government took serious actions to keep Eleanor captive.

The "Legal Succession to the South African Transport Services Act, 1989" transformed the South African Transport Services from a government department into a public company.

Last of the Brunswick line, following which the legal succession passed to the Hanoverian royal family, which had been dispossessed by Prussia following the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.

However, on appeal the entire case was dismissed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit without any discussion by the court of the issue of legal succession.

He continued to receive Japanese funding for his army (renamed "National Defence Army"), for which he was willing to grant Japan legal succession to the German rights in Shandong (see May Fourth Movement).

There were also competing Bulgarian, Wallachian and Ottoman claims for legal succession of the Roman Empire, Mehmet II "the Conqueror" claiming the title Kayser-i Rûm, meaning Caesar of Rome.

The Russian diocese continued its campaign to claim legal succession until 2001, when it dropped attempts to register the 1935 statute, and instead applied to the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the name "Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate".

In 1659 Martin received the survivance (legal succession to an office, nominated before the death of the existing holder) of his father's position at the court of Louis XIV of 'hautbois et musette du roy dans sa grande Ecurie'.

Meanwhile the 1945-founded Jewish Community of Hamburg (Jüdische Gemeinde Hamburg), holding legal succession of the Jewish Religious Association in Hamburg, applied for the rescission of the enforced sale of the Temple in 1940.