successor (always, except in connection, with a genitive of the office to which one succeeds); usually by by circumlocution, qui in alicujus locum succedit, sublegitur, substituitur, subrogatur, or sufficitur: a successor on a throne, qui succedit (in alicujus locum) regno: to give a successor to anyone, aliquem in alicujus locum substituere, sublegere, subrogare, or sufficere (by election); alicui successorem dare, mittere (by removing him; Suet., Oct., 88: Dom., 1): a person receives a successor, alicui succeditur (general term); aliquis successorem accipit (he is removed, Plin., Ep., 9, 13, extr.).