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In Cyprian's conception of the episcopal office the _successio apostolica_ and the position of vicegerent of Christ (of God) counterbalance each other; he also tried to amalgamate both elements

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

In the controversy about heretical baptism Stephen like Calixtus (Tertull., de pudic. 1) designated himself, on the ground of the _successio Petri_ and by reference to Matth.

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

: "Ubi igitur charismata domini posita sunt, ibi discere oportet veritatem, apud quos est ea quæ est ab apostolis ecclesiæ successio."

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

Suecedere alone is used in the sense of inherit,/3/and successio in that of "inheritance."

The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

_Hæreditas est successio in universum jus quod defunctus habuit_ ( "an inheritance is a succession to the entire legal position of a deceased man").

Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

_Tremor et successio non cadunt in fortem et constantem_.

Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807

Such is the situation of every man who comes in upon the ruin of another; his succeeding, under this circumstance, is _tristis et luctuosa successio_.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

Accessit editioni huic Chronologia principum id est series & successio Romanorum pontificum, Augustiss.

Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

In celeberrimi hujus vi. i nomen, familiam et virtutes successit proefatus Gulielmus Grimston, Pronepos hsres - que non degener, qui atavorum meritis hoc addidit proprium, ut in difficilli - mis temporibus, cum successio nostra in haec regna periclitaretur, stienuum se juris nostri bonique publici propugnatorem praestaret.

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

It might be imagined, that, when the sufferer (if a sufferer exists) had forgot the wrong, they would be pleased to forget it too, -- that they would permit the sacred name of possession to stand in the place of the melancholy and unpleasant title of grantees of confiscation, which, though firm and valid in law, surely merits the name that a great Roman jurist gave to a title at least as valid in his nation as confiscation would be either in his or in ours: _Tristis et luctuosa successio_.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763