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An instance of succession status is a collective ascription to a sovereignty of a successive association to another sovereignty. As opposed to a sovereignty following another one merely temporally, as in the case where a sovereign line is broken, the succession relation created between sovereignties is created by the socially recognized connection holding between them. In such cases, the sequence of sovereignties are taken to represent a unified lineage, the exact ordering of which may be the subject of research or scholarly debate, but we do have de jure attribution from which some knowledge may be derived and documented with an instance of Succession Status.

Instances of succession status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance of so-recognizing this status, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act initiating this status. Instances of locative status may come to be through a formal process such as a declaration of succession on the part of some sovereign, or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of succession status may end either though a formal process, such as a new declarative act, or may simply fade out of use, be eliminated by fiat or be of unknown reason.

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