suecedere

Updated: May 1, 2025

Suecedere alone is used in the sense of inherit, /3/ and successio in that of "inheritance." /4/ The succession par excellence was the inheritance; and it is believed that scarcely any instance will be found in the Roman sources where "succession" does not convey that analogy, and indicate the partial assumption, at least, of a persona formerly sustained by another.

Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Common Law