A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.
A passing of royal powers.
In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
An act of following in sequence.
A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
A right to take possession.
A race or series of descendants.
A sequence of things in order.
Rotation, as of crops.