Laws of succession govern the order of succession to various monarchies. Some laws of succession include:
Current monarchies
United Kingdom
- British succession
- Act of Settlement 1701
Denmark
- Succession to the Danish throne
Norway
- Norwegian Law of Succession
Sweden
- Swedish Act of Succession
Spain
- Law of Succession to the Headship of the State
Japan
- Imperial Household Law
Thailand
- 1924 Palace Law of Succession
Former monarchies
France
- Kings of France
- Salic law
- Legitimist claimants to the throne of France
- Orléanist claimants to the throne of France
- Bonapartist claimants to the throne of France
- Jacobite claimants to the throne of France
Russia
- Russian law of succession 1797
General
- Agnatic succession
- Elective monarchy
- Primogeniture
- Proximity of blood
- Ultimogeniture
- Tanistry