The usually informal hierarchy of authority or command, often partial or approximate, as determined by the especially natural propensity for domination of different members of a specific group over each other, such as older brothers and sisters over their younger siblings.
The natural hierarchy of social status and dominance occurring in a group of birds.
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.
A passing of royal powers.
Rotation, as of crops.