ancestor
ancestor, n. A person from whom an estate has passed; ASCENDANT. • This word is the correlative of heir. Cf. HEIR(1). common ancestor. A person to whom the ancestry of two or more persons is traced.
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mort d’ancestor
mort d’ancestor (mor[t] dan-ses-t[schwa]r). [Law French “death of an ancestor”] Hist. An assize founded on the death of an ancestor. — Also termed (in Scots law) brieve of mortancestry. “Another of the petty assizes was that of mort d’ancestor, founded on the Assize of Northhampton 1176. The question in this assize was whether the plaintiff’s
assisa mortis d’ancestoris
assisa mortis d’ancestoris ([schwa]-sI-z[schwa] mor-tis dan-ses-tor-is), n. [Law Latin] See assize of mort d’ancestor under ASSIZE(6).
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