This four-man team would thus have the flexibility to deal with multiple and simultaneous challenges as well as providing for a legitimate succession.

The Catholic Church, however, does not recognise Episcopalians or Lutherans as having legitimate apostolic succession.

Her and Kelson's children could have claimed unquestionable right to both crowns, finally resolving the century-long dispute over the legitimate succession.

You have usurped the legitimate succession in Meara.

Perhaps, even now, the President can be persuaded of the risks his country and his supporters would face without a palpably legitimate succession.

There is no need for any but a legitimate succession to the throne.

Most of Kempff's peers in this repertory are gone, and the legitimate succession to the style he epitomized is not yet clear.

Anne Boleyn was pregnant; the King contracted a secret marriage with her and the need for a divorce was urgent to secure a legitimate succession.

He married to a female relative of Ma Malaichi, thus solidifying his claim of legitimate succession.

The first is self-explanatory: the crown devolved upon Aillas through legitimate and ordinary succession, and he went to claim his due.