succession
n. 1. The law and procedures under which beneficiaries become entitled to property under a testator’s will or on intestacy. 2. (in international law) The transfer of sovereignty over a territorial entity from one subject of international law (i.e. one state) to another. As a result of succession, an existing state becomes totally extinguished (as when Tanganyika and Zanzibar ceased to exist in 1964 on the formation of Tanzania) or a state transfers part of its territory to another state.

• civil contingencies
• civil court
• civil injunction
• civil law
• civil liability contribution
• Civil List
• civil partnership
• Civil Procedure Rules
• civil remedy
• Civil Service
• Civil Service Commission
• civil wrong
• claim
• claimant
• claim form
• claim of privilege
• Claim Production Centre
• class gift
• classical school of criminology
• classification of animals
• class rights
• clause
• clean break
• clean hands
• clearance