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Under the Inheritance Law in the Philippines, when a Filipino Citizen dies, whether he is living in the country or outside thereof, without a last will and testament, legal or intestate succession shall set in to finally and ultimately dispose of all the properties he or she had left upon his or her death.
Apart from a few states where the dynastic ruler is the effective head of the government, the hereditary principle of succession is now almost exclusively confined to the constitutional monarchies of western Europe.
Save in cases of hereditary succession, no private agricultural land will be transferred or assigned except to individuals, corporations or associations qualified to acquire or hold lands of the public domain in the Philippines.
In hereditary monarchies the order of succession determines who becomes the new monarch when the incumbent sovereign dies or otherwise vacates the throne.
The process by which property transfers from a decedent to a qualified person is governed by the Philippine Civil Law on Succession. The process of succession may be further classified into three distinct classes. In the order of what takes priority over the other, these are: Compulsory Succession, Testamentary Succession, and Intestate Succession.
A hereditary monarchy is a form of government and succession of power in which the throne passes from one member of a ruling family to another member of the same family. A series of rulers from the same family would constitute a dynasty.
In inheritance, a hereditary successor is a person who inherits an indivisible title or office after the death of the previous title holder. The hereditary line of succession may be limited to heirs of the body, or may pass also to collateral lines, in case of extinction of
