separation vs succession

separation

noun
  • An agreement legalizing such an arrangement. 

  • Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely. 

  • An object that separates two spaces. 

  • The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated. 

  • The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another. 

  • The place at which a division occurs. 

  • An interval, gap or space that separates things or people. 

  • The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married. 

succession

noun
  • A right to take possession. 

  • 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 race or series of descendants. 

  • A sequence of things in order. 

  • A passing of royal powers. 

  • Rotation, as of crops. 

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