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Mort d'Ancestor

Mort d'Ancestor. See ASSISE OF MORT D'ANCESTOR.

Ancestor, one that has gone before in a family 'it differs

Assise of mort d' ancestor, a writ which lay where a person's father, mother, brother,

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ancestor 1 a : a person from whom an individual is

the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir

by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they

inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal title to it.

If a person sued to recover any right, whereof his ancestor was disseised by the tenant or his ancestor, then he

regarded collectively; those descended or claiming descent from a common ancestor; a house, kindred, lineage; a race; people or group of

Reports in verse the rule has been rhymed thus:- Where ancestors a freehold take, The words 'his heirs,' a limitation make;

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