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    Plaideux, Hugues. "L'inventaire après décès et la déclaration de succession de Jean-François Millet", in Revue de la Manche, t. 53, fasc. 212, 2e trim. 2011...
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    Succession to the British throne is determined by descent, sex, legitimacy, and religion. Under common law, the Crown is inherited by a sovereign's children...
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    Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is considered by some Christian denominations to be derived from the apostles...
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    of Italy and Spain in Southern Europe. Its use of agnatic succession governed the succession of kings in kingdoms such as France and Italy. The original...
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    The War of the Polish Succession (Polish: Wojna o sukcesję polską; 1733–35) was a major European conflict sparked by a civil war in the Polish–Lithuanian...
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  • The issue of succession following the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad is the central issue in the schisms that divided the early Muslim community...
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    Conventions de Genève du 12 août 1949 relatif à la protection des victimes des conflits armés internationaux (Protocole I) - Etats ayant fait la déclaration prévue...
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    The Declaration of Independence (Irish: Forógra na Saoirse, French: Déclaration d'indépendance) was a document adopted by Dáil Éireann, the revolutionary...
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    Monument to the Royal Stuarts The Jacobite succession is the line through which Jacobites believed that the crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland should...
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  • Succession of states is a concept in international relations regarding a successor state that has become a sovereign state over a territory (and populace)...
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    A war of succession is a war prompted by a succession crisis in which two or more individuals claim the right of successor to a deceased or deposed monarch...
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    in 1290, which left the throne of Scotland vacant and the subsequent succession crisis of 1290–1296 ignited a struggle among the Competitors for the Crown...
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    The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy,...
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    (1872-1913) Prince Alexander Georgijevich Yurievsky (1900-1988) (not in line of succession as his grandfather Prince George was born out of wedlock) Prince George...
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    the Nation calls the succession of the Crown for the death of the current Emperor, his firstborn son Don Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide. The Constitution...
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  • that the governments of the realms would amend their laws concerning the succession to their shared throne and related matters. The changes, in summary, comprised:...
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    Henry III of Navarre's succession to the throne in 1589 was followed by a war of succession to establish his legitimacy, which was part of the French Wars...
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    of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan), who was in the council and who, because of a dramatic change in the laws of succession instituted by Louis XIV...
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  • passed "to put it [the succession] in such a method as was not to be resisted but by open force of arms and a public declaration for the Pretender". The...
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    members (æthelings). Primogeniture was not the definitive rule governing succession, so strong candidates replaced weak ones. While the capital was at Winchester...
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    Spanish Succession." The New Cambridge Modern History VI: 1688–1725. pp. 381–409. Francke, Johan (2001). Utiliteyt voor de gemeene saake. De Zeeuwse commissievaart...
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    of descent from Louis XIV. After his death in the temple in 1795, the succession rights passed to his uncle (the title of "Heir-Male" of Louis XIV would...
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    written manifesto, Déclaration du roi, adressée à tous les François, à sa sortie de Paris, traditionally known as the Testament politique de Louis XVI ("Political...
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    declared, it considered itself bound from its independence in 1991 by way of succession to the conventions in force for the Soviet Union in the format and scape...
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    declaration retracting the style "Royal Highness" and "of Romania" previously conferred upon Nicholas, also excluding him from the line of succession...
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    Abdication of Margrethe II (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    only other to do so was King Eric III in 1146. Nevertheless, the Act of Succession envisages that an abdication can take place, as section 6 of the Act stipulates...
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    the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents: Belarus Succession". HCCH. Retrieved 1 February 2021. "Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing...
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    in relation to succession, altering them required Canada's request and consent to the British legislation (His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act...
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    1920 his eldest brother, Prince Miguel, Duke of Viseu, renounced his succession rights. Ten days later on 31 July 1920 Duarte Nuno's father, Miguel Januário...
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    equality set out in the Balfour Declaration. Both Canada and the Irish Free State pushed for the ability to amend the succession laws themselves and section...
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