succeed

To follow something in sequence or time.

Autumn succeeds summer.

Destructive effects […] succeeded the curse.

To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.

The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.

After a contentious election, Jones succeeded Smith as president of the republic.

To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).

Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.

To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).

Following the death of his mother, he succeeded to the throne.

So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, the crown (or: property) falls to me.

To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).

Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died.

If he succeeded in February, 670, this would be his sixteenth year.

Misconstruction of secede.