In contrast, when Sophie Rhys-Jones married Prince Edward, she became HRH The Princess Edward, Countess of Wessex (& c .) and automatically acquired an HRH, by virtue of her marriage to a royal prince who was the son of the British monarch ; as only those males in the Royal Line of Succession receive Royal titles and styles unless there is special dispensation from the Monarch for special courtesy titles i. e. that of Viscount Severn for HRH The Earl of Wessex's son, Prince James ; as the British Monarchy operates on the basis of a male primogeniture ; i. e. one whereby males have preference over females in succeeding to the peerage or title.

However, a title holder may designate his successor, Succession by Assignment, or disperse his titles among his children – with the eldest getting the highest-ranking title, Succession by Distribution.

Through this marriage Gloucester assumed the title " Count of Holland, Zeeland and Hainault ", and briefly fought to retain these titles when they were contested by Jacqueline's cousin Philip, Duke of Burgundy ( see: War of Succession in Holland ).

The new Act of Succession terminated those rights but left the individuals involved in possession of their titles.

Short titles were subsequently given to many unrepealed Acts at later dates ; for example, the Bill of Rights ( 1688 or 1689 ) was given that short title by the Short Titles Act 1896, having until then only been known formally known by its long title, An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown.

Cesare Balbo says that, if the happiness of the masses consists in peace without industry, if the nobility's consists in titles without power, if princes are satisfied by acquiescence in their rule without real independence, without sovereignty, if literary men and artists are content to write, paint and build with the approbation of their contemporaries, but to the contempt of posterity, if a whole nation is happy in ease without dignity and the tranquil progress of corruption, then no period ever was so happy for Italy as the 140 years from the Peace of Cateau Cambrésis to the War of the Spanish Succession.

Then following the vicissitudes of the War of the Polish Succession, the city was occupied by the King of Sardinia, and " count of Tortona " was added to the titles of the House of Savoy.

Other conservative Lutherans, however, may favor High Church Lutheranism which remains generally favorable to the traditional doctrine of Apostolic Succession ( see above ).

Even if a court heard a case regarding whether the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 is unconstitutional, a court may decide not to rule on the merits of such a case.

For example, in The Political Question of Presidential Succession, Northwestern University Professor Steven G. Calabresi suggests that this Act's constitutionality may be a political question.

Act of Succession may refer to:

Succession may refer to the transfer of rights, obligations, and / or property from a previously well-established prior state ( the predecessor state ) to the new one ( the successor state ).

** Succession ( conflict ), inheritance when more than one jurisdiction involved and there may be a conflict of law

Succession may be initiated either by formation of new, unoccupied habitat ( e. g., a lava flow or a severe landslide ) or by some form of disturbance ( e. g. fire, severe windthrow, logging ) of an existing community.

Her judgment was not infallible and mistakes were undoubtedly made: replacing Catinat by Villeroi in 1701 may be attributed to her, but not entire policies ( according to Saint-Simon, certainly not the policy with regard to the Spanish Succession ).

When required an additional rifle company may be formed :- D Company-Dettingen-commemorating the Battle of Dettingen, during the War of the Austrian Succession in 1743 and an additional administration company :- W Company-Waterloo-commemorating the Battle of Waterloo, during the Waterloo campaign in 1815.

Some Catalan separatist authors argue that first precedents of Catalan independentism may date back as far as 1640, with the unsuccessful first Catalan Republic after the Reaper's War, and subsequently during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Succession may move in unpredicted directions, but constricting environmental conditions within a narrow range may rein in the possible successional trajectories and increase the likelihood of a desired outcome.

Succession to the throne shall follow the regular order of primogeniture and representation, the first line having preference over subsequent lines ; and within the same line the closer grade over the more remote ; and within the same grade the male over female, and in the same sex, the elder over the younger.

Gowron ( Klingon-ghawran ) first appears in the episode " Reunion " as the main rival of Duras for the succession of the post of Klingon Chancellor K ' mpec, who suspects that one of the two had been poisoning him and appoints Captain Jean-Luc Picard as " Arbiter of Succession " to determine who will follow him.

In churches that follow the doctrine of Apostolic Succession ( the historical episcopate ), the bishops who consecrate a new bishop are known as the consecrators and form an unbroken line of succession back to the Apostles.

In 1953, the Danish Act of Succession was amended to follow the principle of cognatic primogeniture.

To find her successor, the land's Chief Scrapper and Prime Piercer unwind the Spool of Succession, and follow where the golden thread leads.

The first one was the fact that queen Isabel II was a woman, and her father, king Ferdinand VII, had modified the Succession Law in order for her to be queen, excluding his brother Carlos.

Blenheim has gone down in history as one of the turning points of the War of the Spanish Succession.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough was one of the first generals in the British Army, fighting campaigns in the War of the Spanish Succession.

The connection of these two offices – one a convention, the other a legal office – began with the Hanoverian Succession in 1714.

The French made one more major attack on English troops in 1705 during the War of the Spanish Succession, as the over 8, 000 French troops on the island easily defeated the 1, 000 English posts.

And whereas it is meet and proper to set out by way of preamble to this Act that, inasmuch as the Crown is the symbol of the free association of the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and as they are united by a common allegiance to the Crown, it would be in accord with the established constitutional position of all the members of the Commonwealth in relation to one another that any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall hereafter require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom:

Others concentrate purely on one war, such as ' Beneath the Lily Banners ' ( or BLB as it is often called ) concentrates purely of the War of Spanish Succession.

The War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ) was fought among several European powers, including a divided Spain, over the feared possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch.

* September 4 – The Treaty of Alcáçovas ( also known as Treaty or Peace of Alcáçovas-Toledo ) is signed between the Catholic monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and the King of Portugal on the other side, ending the four-year War of the Castilian Succession.

From the advent of the Bourbon Monarchy following the War of the Spanish Succession until the arrival of parliamentary democracy in 1977, the Castilian language was the only one with official status in the Spanish state.

Succession is by male-preference primogeniture governed by both the Act of Settlement, 1701, and Bill of Rights, 1689, legislation that limits the succession to the natural ( i. e. non-adopted ), legitimate descendants of Sophia of Hanover and stipulates that the monarch cannot be a Roman Catholic, nor married to one, and must be in communion with the Church of England upon ascending the throne ; these particular clauses have prompted legal challenge.

The Battle of Almansa, fought on 25 April 1707, was one of the most decisive engagements of the War of the Spanish Succession.

* Treaty of Utrecht, a group of treaties in 1713, most notably one between France and Great Britain, that ended the War of the Spanish Succession (" Queen Anne's War ")

Becoming de facto leader of Allied forces during the War of the Spanish Succession, his victories on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Ramillies ( 1706 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ), ensured his place in history as one of Europe's great generals.

In 1708, one of the key battles in the War of the Spanish Succession, known as the Battle of Oudenaarde, was fought in the vicinity of the city.

The Battle of Malplaquet, fought on 11 September 1709, was one of the main battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, which opposed the Bourbons of France and Spain against an alliance whose major members were the Habsburg Monarchy, Great Britain, the United Provinces and the Kingdom of Prussia.

During the War of the Austrian Succession, he was one of the principal Austrian military commanders.

Firstly, because of his involvement in the Battle of Siffin against Ali, whom the Shia Muslims believe was Muhammad's true successor ( see Succession to Muhammad ); secondly, for the breaking of the treaty he made with Hasan ibn Ali, after the death of Hassan ibn Ali, one of broken terms being appointing his son Yazid as his successor ; thirdly, on account of his responsibility for the killing of Hasan ibn Ali by alluring his wife Ja ' dah binte Ash ' as to poison him ; and fourthly by distorting Islam to match his unislamic rule.

Although the War of the Austrian Succession was indecisive – despite French successes in India under the French Governor-General Joseph François Dupleix and Europe under Marshal Saxe – the Seven Years ' War, after early French successes in Minorca and North America, saw a French defeat, with the numerically superior British ( over one million to about 50 thousand French settlers ) conquering not only New France ( excluding the small islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon ), but also most of France's West Indian ( Caribbean ) colonies, and all of the French Indian outposts.

In any event, the Presidential Succession Act does not apply when the Vice President is the one in place to act as President.

He became a Patriot Whig and one of the sharpest critics of the Walpole government, attacking the government's strategy in the War of the Austrian Succession.

In 1535 he was one of the special commissioners at the trial of Sir Thomas More and at the trial of three Carthusian Monks, all of whom, because of their religious convictions, had been unable to swear allegiance to the Acts of Succession and Supremacy which had been passed the previous year.